"This book reports on the latest advances in privacy protection issues and technologies for e-services, ranging from consumer empowerment to assess privacy risks, to security technologies needed for privacy protection, to systems for privacy policy enforcement, and even methods for assessing privacy technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Yee (National Research Council Canada) assembles 11 chapters that suggest ways to increase consumer privacy protection on the internet. Among the topics are special issues and challenges, security mechanisms and standards, and privacy protection architectures. These include discussions of how consumers can understand risks, web services issues for those in the health industry, security measures, pseudonym and XML-based technologies, enforcement, models for assessing technologies, and legislation in Canada, the European Union, and the US. Contributors are in the fields of information technology and computer science and are from the National Research Council Canada and universities in Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and Egypt. The book is aimed at consumers, educators, researchers, designers, and developers.
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Yee (National Research Council Canada) assembles 11 chapters that suggest ways to increase consumer privacy protection on the internet. Among the topics are special issues and challenges, security mechanisms and standards, and privacy protection architectures. These include discussions of how consumers can understand risks, web services issues for those in the health industry, security measures, pseudonym and XML-based technologies, enforcement, models for assessing technologies, and legislation in Canada, the European Union, and the US. Contributors are in the fields of information technology and computer science and are from the National Research Council Canada and universities in Canada, Italy, New Zealand, and Egypt. The book is aimed at consumers, educators, researchers, designers, and developers. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)