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Database Nation

Database Nation

The Death of Privacy in the Twenty First Century

Simson Garfinkel

320 pages, parution le 15/01/2000

Résumé

Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a
future in which privacy was decimated by a totalitarian state that used spies,
video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to
maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and
identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights
-- still use Orwell's "Big Brother" language to discuss privacy
issues. But the reality is that the age of a monolithic Big Brother is over. And
yet the threats are perhaps even more likely to destroy the rights we've assumed
were ours.

Today's threats to privacy are more widely distributed than they were in
Orwell's state, and they represent both public and private interests. Over the
next fifty years, we'll see new kinds of threats to privacy that don't find
their roots in totalitarianism but in capitalism, the free market, advances in
technology, and the unbridled exchange of electronic information.

This book is more than simply a journalistic summary of the current state of
privacy rights and violations. It is a call to arms. Forty years ago, unbridled
technology attacked our environment--and few people seemed to know or care. With
the publication of Silent Spring in 1962, Rachel Carson opened our eyes.
Her graphic depiction of the ecological and health ravages brought by technology
made many people realize the risks as never before. Today, our environment still
imperils us, but things are better than they might have been, and we have a
population that's informed and, in many cases, activist. This book pleads the
case for privacy in the same way. There is much that can be done with, not in
spite of, technology. An aware public is the first step. It is our hope that
this book will open the public's eyes to the many intrusions on our privacy
before it is too late.

Table of contents

Preface
1.Privacy Under Attack
2.Database Nation
3.Absolute Identification
4.What Did You Do Today?
5.The View From Above
6.To Know Your Future
7.Buy Now!
8.Who Owns Your Information'
9.Kooks and Terrorists
10.Excuse Me, But Are You Human'
11.Privacy Now!
Annotated Bibliography
and Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

L'auteur - Simson Garfinkel

Simson Garfinkel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computers and Society at Harvard University's department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He came to Harvard after completing his Ph.D. in Computer Security at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he studied computer security, usability, and forensics. Garfinkel is also the founder of Sandstorm Enterprises, Inc., a supplier of computer security auditing tools. Garfinkel writes a monthly column on computer security for CSO Magazine, for which he has received the 2004 and 2005 Neal Business Journalism award. This is Garfinkel's 14th book; he doesn't have any free time.

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Éditeur(s) O'Reilly
Auteur(s) Simson Garfinkel
Parution 15/01/2000
Nb. de pages 320
EAN13 9781565926530

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