Kyi’s Eyes & Spies: How Your Being Tracked and Why You Should Know

Kyi, T.L. (2017) Eyes & spies: How you’re tracked and why you should know. Toronto, Canada: Annick Press

VOYA Ratings

Grade Level Interest: M/J

Quality: 4Q

Popularity: 3P

Have you ever had a feeling that someone was watching you walk down an empty street? What about when your at home watching television or surfing the internet? If so, please rest assure: you are not crazy! In Eyes & Spies: How You’re Tracked and Why You Should Know, Kyi (2017) discusses how larger entities like corporations and the government are intentionally spying on people and what it means in terms of our rights to privacy and freedom. While I understood that this was already happening, I was curious to know of the ways in which this is done and if Kyi offered suggestions on how we can protect ourselves from “big brother”.

This book should be added to the teen collection for a number of reasons. First, the book is addressed to teens and how the infringement of their privacy affects them socially and mentally. Secondly, teens are the highest users of social media such as Facebook and Instagram. When teens post a picture, tweet a comment, or hit the like button on an ad or their friend’s picture, their actions are being tracked and aggregated into valuable data for corporate use. Teens should not only be aware of how they are being tracked, but also how they can protect themselves.

January, B. (2015). Information insecurity: Privacy under siege. Breckenridge, CO: Twenty-First Century Books

Grade Level Interest: M/J

Quality: 4Q

Popularity: 3P

If you liked this book, you may also like Information Insecurity: Privacy Under Siege by Brenden January. This book extends on Kyi’s chapter on the Internet, which focuses on the collection of data by corporate entities, the Internet privacy debate, and how to safeguard yourself online.

Appeal factors according to Novelist

Genre: Social Issues

Subjects: Data Protection, Internet, Privacy Rights