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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Tackling one of today's most timely issues from a broad, humanistic perspective, this book explores the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living under constant surveillance in post-9/11 American society."--Publisher's description.
Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV cameras, TSA scanners, NSA databases, big data marketers, predator drones, "stop and frisk" tactics, Facebook algorithms, hidden spyware, and even old-fashioned...
2) Surrender
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that "calls to mind The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago" (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation)."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant and a confidential informant are killed in a deadly shootout. Left to pick up the pieces is Mary Grant, Joe's young wife and mother of their two daughters. The official report places blame for the deaths on Joe's shoulders ... but the story just doesn't add up and Mary has too many troubling questions that need answers.
Author
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Never before in human history have people been able to share so much about themselves so quickly. Neither have they ever been so exposed to forces that want to take advantage of that capability. This course will open eyes to the surprising extent of that exposure and will discuss options for keeping personal data as safe as possible, help to determine personal privacy profile, and understand the current U.S. laws and proposed state laws regarding...
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
In defining privacy as "the claim of individuals…to determine for themselves when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated," Alan Westin's 1967 classic Privacy and Freedom laid the philosophical groundwork for the current debates about technology and personal freedom, and is considered a foundational text in the field of privacy law. By arguing that citizens retained control over how their personal data was used, Westin redefined...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Rand Paul, U.S. senator for Kentucky and America's most prominent libertarian, makes a case against socialist ideology, showing the impact of its deadly legacy and the threat of its new rise in America"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The surprising story of the fitful development of the right to privacy-and its battle against the public's right to know--across American history. There is no hotter topic than the desire to constrain tech companies like Facebook from exploiting our personal data, or to keep Alexa from spying on you. Privacy has also provoked constitutional crisis (presidential tax returns) while Justice Clarence Thomas seeks to remove the protection of journalists...
Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A thorough introduction to privacy law, covering landmark cases, important themes, historical curiosities, and enduring controversies. Annotation. Glenn (government and political affairs, Millersville U.) examines "the most abstract, most broad, most ill-defined, and what many consider to be the most difficult to grasp of America's freedoms<-- >the right to privacy." Coverage includes the significance of the right to privacy and its implications for...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead. Everywhere we look, companies and governments are spying on us--seeking information about us and everyone we know. Ad networks monitor our web-surfing to send us "more relevant" ads. The NSA screens our communications for signs of radicalism. Schools track students' emails to stop school shootings. Cameras guard...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The essential road map for understanding-and defending-your right to privacy in the twenty-first century. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand. In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick uses true-life stories to show exactly what is happening without your knowledge, teaching you "the art of invisibility"--online and real-world tactics...
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Series
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This volume offers a sweeping overview of the shifting tensions and public opinions fueled by Americans' expectations of privacy vs. their collective desire for national security. ... Diving into how far the government has gone and "should" go in the name of national security, this volume analyzes primary and secondary source documents such as Supreme Court decisions, articles from respected periodicals, and legislation. Coverage includes domestic...