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The Hank Show: How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives
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Author:
McKenzie Funk
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Date:
October 3, 2023
The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique manâas prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that changed the course of the future.
What The Reviewers Say
An engaging, cautiously admiring, portrait of Hank Asher (1951-2013), the 'father of data fusion,' someone most of us have never heard of.
By following the colorful character of Hank Asher, The Hank Show succeeds in demonstrating how truly sinister the credit bureaus may actually be — worse even than Facebook..
A timely book that reads like a Hunter S. Thompson adventure. A recommended purchase for libraries with computer science, public policy, or current events collections..
Readers concerned with the modern dismantling of personal privacy and rampant data-gathering will be riveted by this meticulous report. A deeply unsettling exposé of an exploitative tech genius..
