Privacy in the age of big data : recognizing threats, defending your rights, and protecting your family / Theresa Payton and Ted Claypoole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payton, Theresa, 1966- author.

Claypoole, Ted, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Big data.

Consumer protection.

Data protection--United States.

Data protection.

Electronic surveillance--United States.

Electronic surveillance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]

Summary:

Thoroughly updates the first edition by addressing the significant advances in data-driven technologies, their intrusion deeper in our lives, the limits on data collection newly required by governments in North America and Europe, and the new security challenges of a world rife with ransomware and hacking.

Contents:

Introduction: Your Life on Technology

1. The Intersection of Privacy, Law, and Technology

Part I. Your Computer and the Internet. 2. Your Computer Is Watching You

3. How Government Follows Your Electronic Tracks

4. Criminals and Snoops Online

5. Just Hanging Out Online

6. The Spy in Your Pocket.

Part II. Risk in the Streets. 7. Cameras Everywhere

8. When Your Car Is Just Another Computer

9. When Your Own Body Gives You Away

10. DNA and Your Health Records.

Part III Home is Where the Heart (of Surveillance) Is. 11. Home Sweet Home

12. Risks of Computer and Phone Networks.

Part IV. Where Do We Go From Here. 13. Reality Meets the Metaverse Plus

14. Judging You by Your Data

15. The Future of Technology and Privacy

16. Laws and Regulations That Could Help Preserve Privacy.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798765179031

1-5381-6783-2