Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier

• This text explores how the average person as a citizen and consumer has sacrificed their privacy in the name of surveillance.
• Schneier extensively and persuasively argues that mass surveillance doesn't ensure security.  It isn't a direct trade-off between security and privacy.
• The text questions what the implications for privacy are when so much of the worlds electronic communications are handled by the networks.
• In the past surveillance was conducted from a point in time forward.  Now it can be done retrospectively due to the common mass surveillance made possible by technology.
• The text offers options for a different future with more privacy.
• Schneier takes complex arguments about complex technological ecosystems and distills them into descriptions that are understandable to the common person.  This is an impressive feat.
• There a few areas where the book is a bit rough stylistically.  Overall, they are not distracting.  
• Not suggested for anyone prone to paranoia.

This book is relevant to pretty much everyone, except the Amish.  As a librarian I was espeically intersted in the discussion of the Third Party Doctrine.