Privacy, Information And Technology

by Daniel J. Solove, Marc Rotenberg, Paul M. Schwartz

"Privacy, Information, And Technology" offers a comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all important issues involving information privacy. It presents an extensive and clear background about the law and policy issues relating to information privacy and computers, databases, and the Internet. Many great features make this a truly valuable source, Coverage of government surveillance topics, such as Fourth Amendment, sensory enhancement technologies, wiretapping, computer searches, ISP records, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the USA-Patriot Act; a thorough examination of new issues such as privacy and access to public records, government access to personal information, airline passenger screening and profiling, data mining, identity theft, consumer privacy, and financial privacy; coverage of emerging information technologies such as computer databases, RFID, cookies, spyware, data mining, and others; and an introductory chapter with a thought-provoking philosophical discussion of information privacy.

321 pages, Paperback

First published August 9, 2006

About the author

Daniel J. Solove is the Eugene L. and Barbara A. Bernard Professor of Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a company that provides privacy and data security training programs to businesses, law firms, healthcare institutions, schools, and other organizations. One of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, Solove is the author of 10+ books and textbooks and 100+ articles. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Columbia Law Review, among others. Professor Solove writes at LinkedIn as of its “thought leaders,” and he has more than 1 million followers. He more routinely blogs at Privacy+Security Blog, https://www.teachprivacy.com/privacy-...

Reviews

[Elaine · Rating 5 out of 5]

For an MLIS course. Informative and interesting but a little heavy on the legal stuff.