This engaging text about privacy in the Internet age uncovers the realities of using technology and helps young readers understand that what they do online is seen by outside eyes.
Examines the nature of online privacy and explores just how many ways personal data is being collected on Internet users. Discusses the current laws about online privacy and questions whether they need to be more strict or better written.
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.
"[Provides] . . . steps to protect identity and privacy, even as more everyday household devices are connected to the internet"--Provided by publisher.
Discusses the practical, political, psychological, and philosophical challenges we face as technological advances have changed the landscape of traditional notions of privacy.
surveillance in America from slavery to the war on terror
Parenti, Christian
2003
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.