Database Nation The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century

Name: Database Nation The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9780596001056

ISBN-10: 0596001053

ISBN-13: 9780596001056

Edition: 2001

Authors: Simson Garfinkel

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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 were ours. "Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century shows how, in these early years of the 21st century,…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/26/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English




Privacy Under Attack



Database Nation



Absolute Identification



What Did You Do Today?



The View from Above



To Know Your Future



Buy Now!



Who Owns Your Information?



Kooks and Terrorists



Excuse Me, but Are You Human?



Privacy Now!


Annotated Bibliography and Notes


Acknowledgments


Index