The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You

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'A polemic and a warning . . . designed to agitate us into awareness because this may be the only way we can burst the bubble ' Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times Why is the internet watching you? How is it doing it? And is there anything you can do about it? In this devastating expose of internet giants such as Google and Facebook we are given a glimpse of the secretive world that lies behind the Windows pane. Filled with fascinating stories illustrating the way companies are covertly gathering data on each of us and then using that data to make decisions about what we like, who we talk to and how we think, The Filter Bubble is the first book to reveal the hidden 'net' inside of which each of us is trapped. 'Explains how insidious customization of the web is limiting our access to information, and narrowing rather than expanding our horizons' Observer 'An excellent debunker of internet cliches. Pariser comes as close as anyone has to explaining the misgivings that a lot of internet users feel' Financial Times 'Well-written, thoroughly researched and informative . . . the possibilities become truly amazing - or, if you prefer, scary' Scotsman

ELI PARISER is the board president and former executive director of MoveOn.org, which at five million members is one of the largest citizens' organizations in American politics. During his time leading MoveOn, he sent 937,510,800 e-mails to members in his name. He has written op-eds for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on The Colbert Report, Good Morning America, Fresh Air, and World News Tonight.

An illuminating flash-forward of what might be -- Colin Fraser * Scotland on Sunday * Highlights an important and easily overlooked aspect of the internet's evolution that affects everyone who uses it * The Economist * Pariser is an excellent debunker of internet cliches... [he] comes as close as anyone has to explaining the misgivings that a lot of internet users feel -- Christopher Caldwell * The Financial Times * A book designed to agitate us into awareness, because this may be the only way we can first discover and then burst the bubble... a polemic and warning -- Brian Appleyard * The Sunday Times * Explains how insidious customization of the web is limiting our access to information, and narrowing rather than expanding our horizons * Observer * Well-written, thoroughly researched and informative . . . the possibilities become truly amazing - or, if you prefer, scary * Scotsman * Astonishing * Andrew Marr * Explosive * Chris Anderson *