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Privacy in the Age of Big Data
Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family
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16.01.2014
Summary
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.
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Publication year
2014
Publication date
16.01.2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-2545-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-2546-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
259
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: The Intersection of Privacy, Law, and Technology No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter Two: Your Computer Is Watching You No access
Chapter Three: How Government Follows Your Electronic Tracks No access
Chapter Four: Chased Online by Criminals and Snoops No access
Chapter Five: Just Hanging Out Online . . . No access
Chapter Six: The Spy in Your Pocket No access
Chapter Seven: Cameras Everywhere No access
Chapter Eight: When Your Car Is Just Another Computer No access
Chapter Nine: When Your Own Body Gives You Away No access
Chapter Ten: DNA and Your Health Records No access
Chapter Eleven: Home Sweet Home: Spies in Your Living Room No access
Chapter Twelve: Risks of Computer and Phone Networks No access
Chapter Thirteen: The Future of Technology and Privacy No access
Chapter Fourteen: Laws and Regulations That Could Help Preserve Privacy No access
Index No access Pages 243 - 258
About the Authors No access Pages 259 - 259
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