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"Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly need to make well-informed decisions. Faulty information and sub-optimal decision-making create an imbalance of power that is exaggerated as governments and corporations amass enormous databases on each of us. Who has more power: the government, in possession of uncounted terabytes of data (some of it obtained by…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2017
    MIT Press · 260 pages · 9780262534505
  • Other · English · 2016
    MIT Press · 264 pages · 9780262336246
  • Other · English · 2016
    MIT Press · 264 pages · 9780262336253
  • Other · English · 2016
    MIT Press · 264 pages · 9780262034920
  • Other · English · 2016
    MIT Press · 264 pages · 9780262336260
Information policyInformation servicesFreedom of informationTransparency in governmentDecision makingErrorsPreventionKnowledge, sociology of