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The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age
Daniel J. Solove
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Description for The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age
Paperback. Explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy. This book sets forth a different understanding of what privacy is. It recommends how the law can be reformed to simultaneously protect our privacy and allow us to enjoy the benefits of our digital world. Series: Ex Machina: Law, Technology and Society Series. Num Pages: 283 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LNSP; URD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databases-which Daniel J. Solove calls digital dossiers -has thus far gone largely unchecked. In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and ... Read more
Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databases-which Daniel J. Solove calls digital dossiers -has thus far gone largely unchecked. In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Ex Machina: Law, Technology and Society Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814740378
SKU
V9780814740378
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About Daniel J. Solove
Daniel J. Solove is Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is the co-author of Information Privacy Law.
Reviews for The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age
The Digital Person challenges the existing ways in which law and legal theory approach the social, political, and legal implications of the collection and use of personal information in computer databases. Solove's book is ambitious, and represents the most important publication in the field of information privacy law for some years. -Georgetown Law Journal Solove ... Read more