Privacy and Security in the Digital Age

Privacy and Security in the Digital Age
Author: Michael Friedewald
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-01-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317661060

Privacy and data protection are recognized as fundamental human rights. Recent developments, however, indicate that security issues are used to undermine these fundamental rights. As new technologies effectively facilitate collection, storage, processing and combination of personal data government agencies take advantage for their own purposes. Increasingly, and for other reasons, the business sector threatens the privacy of citizens as well. The contributions to this book explore the different aspects of the relationship between technology and privacy. The emergence of new technologies threaten increasingly privacy and/or data protection; however, little is known about the potential of these technologies that call for innovative and prospective analysis, or even new conceptual frameworks. Technology and privacy are two intertwined notions that must be jointly analyzed and faced. Technology is a social practice that embodies the capacity of societies to transform themselves by creating the possibility to generate and manipulate not only physical objects, but also symbols, cultural forms and social relations. In turn, privacy describes a vital and complex aspect of these social relations. Thus technology influences people’s understanding of privacy, and people’s understanding of privacy is a key factor in defining the direction of technological development. This book was originally published as a special issue of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.

Visions of Privacy

Visions of Privacy
Author: Colin J. Bennett
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780802080509

Experts from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, explore five potential paths to privacy protection.

The Digital Person

The Digital Person
Author: Daniel J Solove
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0814740375

Daniel Solove presents a startling revelation of how digital dossiers are created, usually without the knowledge of the subject, & argues that we must rethink our understanding of what privacy is & what it means in the digital age before addressing the need to reform the laws that regulate it.

Protect Your Digital Privacy!

Protect Your Digital Privacy!
Author: Glee Harrah Cady
Publisher: Que Publishing
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780789726049

Discusses such electronic privacy concerns as what privacy is, how it relates to individuals, laws and regulations, identity theft, monitoring devices, and how to protect Internet transactions.

Invasion of Privacy

Invasion of Privacy
Author: Michael S. Hyatt
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Computer crimes
ISBN: 9780895262875

From the bestselling author of "The Millennium Bug" comes information on how people can protect themselves from privacy invasion by government, industry, individuals, and interest groups.

Privacy in the Age of Big Data

Privacy in the Age of Big Data
Author: Theresa Payton
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2014-01-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1442225467

Digital devices have made our busy lives a little easier and they do great things for us, too – we get just-in-time coupons, directions, and connection with loved ones while stuck on an airplane runway. Yet, these devices, though we love them, can invade our privacy in ways we are not even aware of. The digital devices send and collect data about us whenever we use them, but that data is not always safeguarded the way we assume it should be to protect our privacy. Privacy is complex and personal. Many of us do not know the full extent to which data is collected, stored, aggregated, and used. As recent revelations indicate, we are subject to a level of data collection and surveillance never before imaginable. While some of these methods may, in fact, protect us and provide us with information and services we deem to be helpful and desired, others can turn out to be insidious and over-arching. Privacy in the Age of Big Data highlights the many positive outcomes of digital surveillance and data collection while also outlining those forms of data collection to which we do not always consent, and of which we are likely unaware, as well as the dangers inherent in such surveillance and tracking. Payton and Claypoole skillfully introduce readers to the many ways we are “watched” and how to change behaviors and activities to recapture and regain more of our privacy. The authors suggest remedies from tools, to behavior changes, to speaking out to politicians to request their privacy back. Anyone who uses digital devices for any reason will want to read this book for its clear and no-nonsense approach to the world of big data and what it means for all of us.

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age

Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2007-06-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0309134005

Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and government agencies may present new ways to compromise privacy, and e-commerce and technologies that make a wide range of personal information available to anyone with a Web browser only begin to hint at the possibilities for inappropriate or unwarranted intrusion into our personal lives. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of privacy in the information age. It explores such important concepts as how the threats to privacy evolving, how can privacy be protected and how society can balance the interests of individuals, businesses and government in ways that promote privacy reasonably and effectively? This book seeks to raise awareness of the web of connectedness among the actions one takes and the privacy policies that are enacted, and provides a variety of tools and concepts with which debates over privacy can be more fruitfully engaged. Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age focuses on three major components affecting notions, perceptions, and expectations of privacy: technological change, societal shifts, and circumstantial discontinuities. This book will be of special interest to anyone interested in understanding why privacy issues are often so intractable.

Surveillance and Privacy in the Digital Age

Surveillance and Privacy in the Digital Age
Author: Valsamis Mitsilegas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509925198

What impact has the evolution and proliferation of surveillance in the digital age had on fundamental rights? This important collection offers a critical assessment from a European, transatlantic and global perspective. It tracks four key dimensions: digitalisation, privatisation, de-politicisation/de-legalisation and globalisation. It sets out the legal and policy demands that recourse to 'the digital' has imposed. Exploring the question across key sectors, it looks at privatisation through the prism of those demands on the private sector to co-operate with the state's security needs. It goes on to assess de-politicisation and de-legalisation, reflecting the fact that surveillance is often conducted in secret. Finally, it looks at applicable law in a globalised digital world. The book, with its exploration of cutting-edge issues, makes a significant contribution to our understanding of privacy in this new digital landscape.

Privacy in the Digital Age

Privacy in the Digital Age
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: