This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2002, held in Dresden, Germany in March 2003. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 52 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics addressed are mix-networks, generalized mixes, unlinkability, traffic analysis prevention, face recognition, privacy legislation, Web censorship, anonymous networking, personalized Web-based systems, and privacy in enterprises. … More >>

Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Third International Workshop, PET 2003, Dresden, Germany, March 26-28, 2003, Revised Papers

Maps, as we know, help us find our way around. But they’re also powerful tools for someone hoping to find you. Widely available in electronic and paper formats, maps offer revealing insights into our movements and activities, even our likes and dislikes. In Spying with Maps, the “mapmatician” Mark Monmonier looks at the increased use of geographic data, satellite imagery, and location tracking across a wide range of fields such as military intelligence, law enforcement, market research, and traffic engineering. Could these diverse forms of geographic monitoring, he asks, lead to grave consequences for society? To assess this very real threat, he explains how geospatial technology works, what it can reveal, who uses it, and to what effect.

Despite our apprehension about surveillance technology, Spying with Maps is not a jeremiad, crammed with dire warnings about eyes in the sky and invasive tracking. Monmonier’s approach encompasses both skepticism and the acknowledgment that geo… More >>

Spying with Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy

“Anyone concerned with preserving privacy against technology’s growing intrusiveness will find this book enlightening.”
—Publishers Weekly “Solove . . . truly understands the intersection of law and technology. This book is a fascinating journey into the almost surreal ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the digital age.”
—The Wall Street Journal “Solove is one of the most energetic and creative scholars writing about privacy today.”
—Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age “Powerful theme.”
—Privacy Journal “This is not only a book you should read, but you should make sure your friends read it.”
—IEEE Review “Solove offers a book that is both comprehensive and easy to understand, discussing the changes that technology has brought to our concept of privacy. An excellent starting point for much needed discussion.”
—Law Technology News “An unusually perceptive discussion o… More >>

The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information.

Arguing that privacy concerns should not be limited solely to concern about control over personal information, Helen Nissenbaum counters that information ought to be distributed and protected according to norms governing distinct social contexts—whether it be workplace, health care, schools, or among family and friends. She warns that basic distinctions between public and private, informing many current privacy policies, in fact obscure more than they clarify. In truth, contemporary information systems should alarm us only when they function without regard for social norms and values, and thereby weaken t… More >>

Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

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A respected futurist advances an argument sure to cause debate-in a wired world, the best way to preserve our freedom will be to give up our privacy In The Transparent Society, award-winning author David Brin details the startling argument that privacy, far from being a right, hampers the real foundation of a civil society: accountability. Using examples as disparate as security cameras in Scotland and Gay Pride events in Tucson, Brin shows that openness is far more liberating than secrecy and advocates for a society in which everyone (not just the government and not just the rich) could look over everyone else’s shoulders. The biggest threat to our society, he warns, is that surveillance technology will be used by too few people not by too many.David Brin takes some of our worst notions about threats to privacy and sets them on their ears. According to Brin, there is no turning back the growth of public observation and inevitable loss of privacy–at least outside of our own home… More >>

The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

Privacy, Information, and Technology examines how the right to privacy is implicated by the Internet, communications media, and emergent technologies. Anyone interested in exploring this timely subject will find Privacy, Information, and Technology informative, readable, and engaging.

The second edition of Privacy, Information, and Technology features:
Background information and lucid text that explains the law and policy of information privacy in relation to computers, databases, and the Internet;

Broad coverage of government surveillance and the legal ramifications surrounding
The Fourth Amendment;

Sensory enhancement technologies;

Wiretapping;

Computer searches;

ISP records;

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act;

The USA-PATRIOT Act.

A thorough examination of new and cutting-edge issues, such as:

Privacy and access to public records;

Government acc… More >>

Privacy, Information and Technology, 2nd Edition