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A review by myrhial
The Smart Girl's Guide to Privacy: Practical Tips for Staying Safe Online by Violet Blue
4.0
This is an excellent book explaining both why you should care for online safety and how you should go about it. If the worst has already happened, this book can still help you recover. It sticks to the point and offers practical todos and links. It also explains how the whole thing is a process, and how patience is needed, but that if you get on top of things and stay there you can exercise quite a bit of control as well as keep yourself (better) out of harms way.
The only reason this book isn't getting five stars from me is that while it is directed towards women, it actually is a little unfair towards men. It falls into generalisations, offers no sources to the data it claims to have, and relies upon anecdotes. The writer at times admits that the same things do happen to men, but then falls back into trivializing the issue. I full well believe you can write a book oriented towards women without doing this. Or alternatively, while written by a woman, this could have been a gender neutral book. Even if the claim that women are more often targets is true, and even if the author only has examples on specific ways that women are at risk, the author could have worked with other sources or stuck to what is true for all genders. Because while stories about how marketeers target women specifically are interesting to know about, they don't really add that much in the end.
The only reason this book isn't getting five stars from me is that while it is directed towards women, it actually is a little unfair towards men. It falls into generalisations, offers no sources to the data it claims to have, and relies upon anecdotes. The writer at times admits that the same things do happen to men, but then falls back into trivializing the issue. I full well believe you can write a book oriented towards women without doing this. Or alternatively, while written by a woman, this could have been a gender neutral book. Even if the claim that women are more often targets is true, and even if the author only has examples on specific ways that women are at risk, the author could have worked with other sources or stuck to what is true for all genders. Because while stories about how marketeers target women specifically are interesting to know about, they don't really add that much in the end.