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Online ads from websites you've visited... smartphones and cars transmitting your location... data-gathering surveillance operations across the Internet and on your phone lines. You are being watched.... Angwin offers a revelatory and unsettling look at how the government, private companies, and even criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data. She argues that the greatest long-term danger is that we start to internalize the surveillance and censor our words and thoughts, until we lose our freedom. Appalled at such a prospect, Angwin conducts a series of experiments to try to protect herself.

Summaries of actual case histories and court decisions in the areas of law enforcement, sexuality, reproduction, dying, the press, voyeurism, problems in the workplace, and freedom of information which have a direct bearing on personal privacy.

Offers an overview of the privacy risks associated with Internet use, discussing how users can protect their identity, personal information, credit card numbers, and more.

A collection of twenty-two articles that offer opposing viewpoints on issues related to privacy, addressing questions about counterterrorism measures and privacy rights, whether medical privacy is adequately protected, and how privacy should be guarded.

Surveys the concept of the right of privacy, its history, the laws protecting it, the effects of computers and other technological developments, and the conflict of rights in such issues as national security and police investigations.

Argues that the rights to privacy of Americans have been eroded by computer technologies, criminals, marketers and government entities. Suggests measures to reclaim privacy rights and prevent future infringements.