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GWEN IFILL: Now the latest addition to the NewsHour bookshelf, Terms of Service. Its a look at the erosion of privacy in the age of social media.

Jeffrey Brown recently talked to author Jacob Silverman at Busboys and Poets, a restaurant and bookstore chain in and around Washington.

JEFFREY BROWN: Welcome to you.

JACOB SILVERMAN, Author, Terms of Service: Thanks for having me.

JEFFREY BROWN: The case youre making and its a strong case we dont know or we dont seem to care enough about what were giving away in our digital lives.

JACOB SILVERMAN: Right.

Well, the same systems that make it so easy to communicate with one another and live these lives where were essentially all public figures now also make it very easy tosort of spy on us, to collect personal information, whether youre companies or governments or other bad actors.

And I think that a lot of people dont really realize how much is being collected on each and every one of us, that there are big data brokers out there forming dossiers on hundreds of millions of people.

JEFFREY BROWN: Theres been a lot of emphasis on government surveillance. Here, youre really pointing to what we perhaps dont know as much about, corporate surveillance.

JACOB SILVERMAN: Right.

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How can we return privacy control to social media users?