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ObfuscationA User's Guide for Privacy and Protest$
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Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest

Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum

Print publication date: 2015

Print ISBN-13: 9780262029735

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: September 2016

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262029735.001.0001

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(p.25) 2 Other Examples
Source:
Obfuscation
Author(s):

Finn Brunton

Helen Nissenbaum

Publisher:
The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262029735.003.0003

The authors provide an additional eighteen examples of obfuscation. By contrast with the core cases of I.1, these examples are broader and more varied in their application, including speculative design projects, patents, file-sharing tools, and business and financial strategies. This section does not expand the fundamental lexicon of what obfuscation is and does, but instead shows how it is applied to specific kinds of challenges, including textual stylometry, facial recognition, loyalty cards, criminal investigations, and software code.

Keywords:   Obfuscation, Privacy, Networks, Identity, Tracking, Filesharing

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