Database nation : the death of privacy in the 21st century / Simon Garfinkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garfinkel, Simson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer security--United States.

Computer security.

Privacy, Right of--United States.

Privacy, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

2011.

Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2000.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights--still use Orwell's ""Big Brother"" language to discuss privacy issues. But the reality is that the age of a monolithic Big Brother is over. And yet the threats are perhaps even more likely to destroy the rights we've assumed we

Contents:

Contents; Privacy Under Attack; What Do We Mean by Privacy?; The Role of Technology; The Role of Government; Fighting Back; Why This Book?; Database Nation; Thirty-Four Years Later; How We Got Here; Social Security Numbers Grow in Popularity; America Adopts the SSN; It Could Happen to You; Identity Theft: A Stolen Self; Looking Forward by Looking Back; Our Databanked Future; Absolute Identification; On the Identification of Infants; Anthropometrical Signalment; The Science of Fingerprints; The Rise of the Identification State; AFIS; DNA Identification

Settling the Science: DNA Testing 1986-1996DNA Fingerprinting Today; The DNA Databank; Computerized Biometrics; Biometrics Tomorrow; Biometric Piracy; Identifying Bodies, Not People; What Did You Do Today?; The Information Crisis; False Data Syndrome; The Tracking Process: How Our Information Is Turned Against Us; Step 1: Make Data Collectable; Step 2: Make Data Machine-Readable; Step 3: Build a Big Database; The Biggest Database in the World; The Age of Public Statements; Smart Machines Create Active Databanks; Turning Back the Information Tide; The View from Above; Hey, I Live Here!

The Eye in the SkyThe Eye on the Ground; Video Surveillance for the Rest of Us; Webcam; From Webcam to Wearcam; Fumbling for the "Off" Switch; What Was That?; The Systematic Surveillance of Science; One World, Like It or Not; To Know Your Future; No Bigger Gap; The Medical Records Fairy Tale; Privacy Is Your Doctor's Responsibility; Privacy Is Not Your Insurance Company's Responsibility; Nobody Knows the MIB; Forcing Physicians to Lie; A Right to Your Self; A Right to Your Past; Computerized Patient Records: The Promise; Computerized Patient Records: The Threat; Other Threats

Rethinking Medical Care and Medical InsuranceBuy Now!; Marketing and the Knowledge Crisis; Love Me, Love My Purchases; Our Bodies, Our Dollars; Selling It to the Youngest Consumers; Turning Up the Volume; They've Got You Targeted: The Process of Direct Marketing; Targeted Crime; Opt-Out Doesn't Work; Taking Direct Action Against Direct Marketing; Tactic #1: Exercise Your Anonymity; Tactic #2: Publicize and Litigate; Tactic #3: Track Them as They Track You; Tactic #4: Make Use of Today's Laws and Fight for New Ones; Who Owns Your Information?; Do You Own Your Name?; Arguments Before the Court

Avrahami v. Establishment, Round 2The Value of Names in New Jersey; Names as Property; Do You Own Your Feet?; Double Trouble; Spleens and Thick Bones; Human Tissue Is Not Anonymous; The Jewish Gene; Decoding Iceland; Do You Own Your Books?; Data Hiding; Turning Your Computer Against You; Do You Own What You Do?; Do You Want to Use Ownership to Protect Your Privacy?; Kooks and Terrorists; The Democratization of Destructive Technology; The Dish of Death; The Changing Face of Terrorism; Home-Grown Terrorism; Loose Nukes; Chemical-Biological Terrorism; Information Warfare; Thought Crime

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 3, 2013).

ISBN:

9781306817684

1306817684

9780596804527

0596804520

9780596550646

0596550642

OCLC:

609841146