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Title Privacy in the modern age : the search for solutions / edited by Marc Rotenberg, Julia Horwitz and Jeramie Scott.

Publication Info. New York : New York Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 13, 2015).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records are available for sale to strangers; our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity; and small robots patrol our schoolyards and drones may soon fill our skies. The contributors to this anthology don't simply describe these problems or warn about the loss of privacy₇they propose solutions. They look closely at business practices, public policy, and technology design, and ask, "Should this continue? Is there a better approach? "They take seriously the dictum of Thomas Edison: "What one creates with his hand, he should control with his head. "It's a new approach to the privacy debate, one that assumes privacy is worth protecting, that there are solutions to be found, and that the future is not yet known. This volume will be an essential reference for policy makers and researchers, journalists and scholars, and others looking for answers to one of the biggest challenges of our modern day. The premise is clear: there's a problem₇let's find a solution.
Subject Privacy, Right of -- United States.
Big data.
Data protection.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights.
Big data. (OCoLC)fst01892965
Data protection. (OCoLC)fst00887958
Privacy, Right of. (OCoLC)fst01077444
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Rotenberg, Marc, editor.
Scott, Jeramie, editor.
Horwitz, Julia, editor.
ISBN 9781620971086 (electronic book)
1620971089 (electronic book)
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