Protect Your Digital Privacy

Survival Skills for the Information Age

Glee Harrah Cady

652 pages, parution le 16/01/2002

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Résumé

Protect Your Digital Privacy! Survival Skills for the Information Age offers clear discussion of privacy issues as they affect everyday users of digital devices. This book covers both current and near-future technologies, and the privacy risks that users face. Also included are practical recommendations-including third party hardware and software solutions-for implementing privacy safeguards when using different digital devices.

Contents

Introduction

I Setting the Stage: Privacy in the Information Age

1 Protecting Your Privacy in the 21st Century
2 What Is Privacy in a Digital World?

II Becoming Aware: Privacy and the Individual

3 Who Wants to Know What about Whom?
4 Threats to Your Children's Privacy
5 Online Disclosures and That Barn Door
6 Broadband: Always on, Always Connected, Always Exposed
7 Privacy over the Airwaves
8 Do the Walls Have Ears? Other Devices That Can Affect Privacy

III Taking Control

9 Taking an Inventory of Your Personal Information
10 The Least You Should Do to Guard Your Privacy When Online
11 How to Secure Your Internet Transactions
12 What Can I Do If My Privacy Is Compromised?

IV What Your Need to Know About Legal Protections for Privacy

13 Privacy and the Law: 2001
14 Canaries in the Coal Mine
15 Self-Regulation and Privacy

V Privacy and the Future

16 Internet Voting: Don't Try This at Home ... Yet
17 Where Are We Going?
18 Can You Really Be Anonymous?

A: Glossary

B Expanded Privacy Checklist

C List of Privacy Bills in the States in 2001

D Our Co-Conspirators

E Privacy-Related Web sites

Index

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Que
Auteur(s)	Glee Harrah Cady
Parution	16/01/2002
Nb. de pages	652
Format	18,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1078g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780789726049