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Presents a collection of fifteen essays that address the issue of privacy rights and liberties, and covers such topics as the Patriot Act, identity thefts, employee and medical rights, facial recognition technology, and more.

Examines how blogs, social network sites, chatrooms, and other sites have violated the privacy of those who use them, and describes how the Internet is being transformed into a venue for gossip and rumors.

Contains an investigative report by "Washington Post" reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr. that uncovers the links between current trends in surveillance technologies, information profiling, and its ties to the U.S. government through anti-terror initiatives.

Reveals how major corporations are planning to place small radio frequency identification devices into all consumer products in order to track trends, movements, and consumer practices, and argues that these devices will further limit personal freedoms and lead to an over-watched society.

Presents a history of national identification, new technologies deigned to track people, and offers a collection of essays that imagine a future of resistance against a government tracking its citizens.

Uses many case histories to trace the evolvement of our privacy laws and to demonstrate the increasingly numerous and alarming ways our private lives can be and are invaded.

Describes how drug and polygraph tests work, how they are being used, and court cases involving them.

Discusses the collection of information about individuals by government agencies, law enforcement officials, credit bureaus, insurance companies, and other investigators, and the threat of personal privacy represented by searches and seizures, eavesdropping, personality tests, polygraphs, and computer technology.

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.