Henderson, Harry

With everyone online and everything being connected to an "Internet of Things" new applications bring new vulnerabilities. Current and emerging security threats are discussed, along with what technologists, policy makers, and ordinary citizens are doing to make the digital world safer and more secure.

Smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices are rapidly changing how people communicate, socialize, and obtain information. However concerns about privacy, access, and control of information have been heightened by our being always connected and constantly tracked.

Provides a history of nuclear power, biographies of key scientists involved in its development, and numerous reference sources.

Recent revelations of extensive government surveillance programs pit privacy concerns against the need to fight terrorism and crime. Using cases involving real people, this book explores how federal agencies, local law enforcement, and even schools are collecting, using and perhaps abusing the personal information they gather online.

Text and photographs look at science and technology in the twenty-first century.

Examines the controversy over issues of privacy in relation to the advancements in computer technology, and and raises questions regarding such topics as monitoring e-mail, inspecting medical and financial records without the knowledge or consent of those whose information it is.