Technocreep The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy

Name: Technocreep The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
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ISBN: 9781771641227

ISBN-10: 1771641223

ISBN-13: 9781771641227

Edition: 2014

Authors: Thomas P. Keenan

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"Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Tom Keenan, "and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us." Here is the definitive dissection of privacyeroding and lifeinvading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door. Take, for example, the furor over "Girls Around Me," a Russianmade iPhone app that allowed anyone to scan the immediate vicinity for girls and women who checked in on Foursquare and had poorly secured Facebook profiles. Going to a Disney theme park? Your creepy new "MagicBand" will alert Minnie Mouse so she'll know your kid's name when you approach her. Thinking about sending your…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Greystone Books Ltd.
Publication date: 9/13/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748

<p class="biography" One of the world's top computer security experts, <b Thomas P. Keenan</b hosted the award-winning CBC Ideas series Crimes of the Future. A Fellow of the Canadian Information Processing Society and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, he received the 2012 NSERC Award for Science Promotion and is a popular professor at the University of Calgary.</p