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The Digital Personby Daniel J. Solove
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:View the #LINK "This comprehensive analysis of privacy in the information age challenges traditional assumptions that breeches of privacy through the development of electronic dossiers involve the invasion of one's private space." —Choice "The Digital Person challenges the existing ways in which law and legal theory approach the social, political, and legal implications of the collection and use of personal information in computer databases. Solove's book is ambitious, and represents the most important publications in the field of information privacy law for some years." —Georgetown Law Journal "Anyone concerned with preserving privacy against technology's growing intrusiveness will find this book enlightening." —Publishers Weekly "Solove . . . truly understands the intersection of law and technology. This book is a fascinating journey into the almost surreal ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the digital age." —The Wall Street Journal "Daniel Solove is one of the most energetic and creative scholars writing about privacy today. The Digital Person is an important contribution to the privacy debate, and Solove's discussion of the harms of what he calls 'digital dossiers' is invaluable." —Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd "Powerful theme." —Privacy Journal "This is not only a book you should read, but you should make sure your friends read it." —IEEE Review "Solove offers a book that is both comprehensive and easy to understand, discussing the changes that technology has brought to our concept of privacy. An excellent starting point for much needed discussion." —Law Technology News "An unusually perceptive discussion of one of the most vexing problems of the digital age—our loss of control over our personal information. It's a fascinating journey into the almost surreal ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the digital age. I recommend his book highly." —Bruce Schneier "Solove's book is the best exposition thus far about the threat that computer databases containing personal data about millions of Americans poses for information privacy." —Pamela Samuelson, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley "Solove drives his points home through considerable reconfiguration of the basic argument. Rather than casting blame or urging retreat to a precomputer database era, the solution is seen in informing individuals, challenging data collectors, and bringing the law up-to-date." —Choice "If you want to find out what a mess the law of privacy is, how it got that way, and whether there is hope for the future, then read this book." —Legal Times "Solove evaluates the shortcomings of current approaches to privacy as well as some useful and controversial ideas for striking a new balance. Anyone who deals with privacy matters will find a lot ot consider." —DM News "Solove's treatment of this particular facet is thoughtful, thorough, concise, and occasionally laced with humor. The present volume gives us reason to look forward to his future contributions." —The Law and Politics Book Review "Solove's book is useful, particularly as an overview on how these private and government databases grew in sophistication and now interact with one another." —Christian Science Monitor "A far-reaching examination of how digital dossiers are shaping our lives. Daniel Solove has persuasively reconceptualized privacy for the digital age. A must-read." —Paul Schwartz, Brooklyn Law School "The Digital Person is a detailed and approachable resource on privacy issues and the laws that affect them." —IT Conversations Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databases—which Daniel J. Solove calls "digital dossiers"—has thus far gone largely unchecked. In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and using personal data, Solove explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy. The Digital Person sets forth a new understanding of what privacy is, one that is appropriate for the new challenges of the Information Age. Solove recommends how the law can be reformed to simultaneously protect our privacy and allow us to enjoy the benefits of our increasingly digital world. The first volume in the series EX MACHINA: LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY Review:"When one surveys the myriad ways that personal information can be snatched from individuals through electronic means, it's easy to feel gloomy about the prospects for privacy in the Information Age-which is why this book is so refreshing. Although it sometimes reads like a legal brief-author Solove (Information Privacy Law) is an associate law professor at George Washington University Law School-it offers insights into the current state of privacy in America and some intriguing prescriptions for altering that state of affairs. Contrary to popular notions that 'Big Brother' is destroying privacy, Solove argues that the withering of privacy can, in large measure, be attributed to indifference. 'The privacy problem created by the use of databases stems from an often careless and unconcerned bureaucratic process,' he writes, 'one that has little judgment or accountability.... We are not just heading toward a world of Big Brother, but to a world that is beginning to resemble Kafka's vision in The Trial.' Solove contends that existing methods for protecting privacy fail to fulfill their purpose because they depend on individuals remedying situations that they don't even know exist. Solove's call for systematic change is compelling, as are his ideas for revamping society's information-gathering architecture. 'Changing our relationships with bureaucracies can't be achieved through isolated lawsuits,' he argues. 'We need a regulatory system, akin to the ones we have in place regulating our food, environment, and financial institutions.' Anyone concerned with preserving privacy against technology's growing intrusiveness will find this book enlightening." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Synopsis:View the Table of Contents .nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;Read the Introduction . "Daniel Solove is one of the most energetic and creative scholars writing about privacy today. The Digital Person is an important contribution to the privacy debate, and Solove's discussion of the harms of what he calls "digital dossiers"is invaluable."-Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd "A far-reaching examination of how digital dossiers are shaping our lives. Daniel Solove has persuasively reconceptualized privacy for the digital age. A must-read."-Paul Schwartz, Brooklyn Law School Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day-even as you read this-electronic databases are compiling information about you. Ever since the Internet transformed the way we shop, learn, and communicate, computer databases have collected unprecedented amounts of information about almost every individual in the world. Small details that were once captured in dim memories or fading scraps of paper are now preserved forever in the digital minds of computers, in vast databases with fertile fields of personal information These databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences for millions of people. Often these dossiers are used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. This practice has, thus far, gone largely unchecked, and poses a grave threat to our privacy. In this startling revelation of how digital dossiers are created (usually without our knowledge), Daniel J. Solove argues that we must rethink our understanding of what privacy is and what it means in the digital age, and then reform the laws that define and regulate it.Although the implications of digital dossiers may be grave, The Digital Person helps empower Internet users by exposing to them the reality of what happens when they input personal information into computers, and how they can push for legal reform that simultaneously protects their privacy and lets them enjoy the benefits of the information age. The first volume in the series EX MACHINA: LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
Synopsis:Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day--even as you read this--electronic databases are compiling information about you. Ever since the Internet transformed the way we shop, learn, and communicate, computer databases have collected unprecedented amounts of information about almost every individual in the world. Small details that were once capture in dim memories or fading scraps of paper are now preserved forever in the digital minds of computers, in vast databases with fertile fields of personal information. These databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences for millions of people. Often these dossiers are used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. This practice has, thus far, gone largely unchecked, and poses a grave threat to our privacy. In this startling revelation of how digital dossiers are created (usually without our knowledge), Daniel J. Solove argues that we must rethink our understanding of what privacy is and what it means in the digital age, and then reform the laws that define and regulate it. Although the implications of digital dossiers may be grave, The Digital Person helps empower Internet users by exposing to them the reality of what happens when they input personal information into computers, and how they can push for legal reform that simultaneously protects their privacy and lets them enjoy the benefits of the information age.
About the AuthorDaniel J. Solove is associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. He is the co-author of Information Privacy Law. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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