right of privacy

Explores privacy and technology in the 21st century, including activists, the media, and more.

A guide to electronic privacy for librarians that discusses identity theft protection, threats from the business world, protecting children and teenagers, government surveillance, RFID systems, the Patriot Act, and other related topics.

Through a narrative-driven pro/con format supported by relevant facts, quotes, anecdotes, and full-color illustrations, this title examines issues related to terrorism.

A guide for girls on how to be active on the Internet and social media and stay safe.

Discusses the practical, political, psychological, and philosophical challenges we face as technological advances have changed the landscape of traditional notions of privacy.

Explores the hidden history of surveillance, from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice, tracking immigrants, and monitoring the poor as part of modern social work, and discusses the role computers and new technology play in American surveillance.

A guide for young readers that offers advice on how to stay safe while online, including being careful when chatting online, never answering personal questions, not opening or answering questions from strangers, only visiting chat rooms that have a moderator, and more.

Businesses used to contact buyers by placing advertisements in newspapers, magazines, and on television and radio. Now they monitor your online shopping and product browsing habits. This book looks at the ways businesses spy on patrons, examines the reasons the marketplace has changed, argues the pros and cons of keeping tabs on cyber shoppers, and outlines the advantages corporate mining gives to larger companies.

The Patriot Act, which was passed shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has allowed the government to monitor communication by phone, email, or social media, to access credit and bank reports, or to track activity on the Internet. This book examines the new methods used by the government to spy on citizens, the reasons it became necessary, and the tradeoffs between increased safety and a loss of privacy, and the moral arguments for and against these tradeoffs.

This book examines the many new methods of data collection, the rationale behind developing them, the pros and cons of developing these new technologies, and the difficulties of restricting the use of these technologies before laws can be passed to protect citizens from abuses.