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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely crowded isolation: we are always linked, but only shallowly so. The capacity to be alone, properly alone, is one of life's subtlest skills. Real solitude is a powerful resource we can call upon?a crucial ingredient for a rich interior life. It inspires...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Chertoff [posits] that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information, written for an earlier time, need to be ... overhauled in the Internet era. On the one hand, the collection of data--more widespread by business than by government, and impossible to stop--should be facilitated as an ultimate protection for society. On the other, standards under which information can be inspected, analyzed, or used must be significantly...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The essential road map for understanding-and defending-your right to privacy in the twenty-first century. Privacy is disappearing. From our sex lives to our workout routines, the details of our lives once relegated to pen and paper have joined the slipstream of new technology. As a MacArthur fellow and distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia, acclaimed civil rights advocate Danielle Citron has spent decades working with lawmakers...
7) 'Zine scene
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
"No embarrassing secret is safe when Jimmy's latest invention takes invasion of privacy to new heights"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In a world where full body scans are permitted before someone boards an aircraft, it is no wonder people are concerned with the issue of privacy rights. The issue of privacy has always been a complex one, and the events of September 11, 2001 made it that much more complicated. Privacy rights had to be weighed against the importance of protecting Americans' lives and monitoring terrorist activity. This stirring tome covers the roots of privacy in America,...
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Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Rand Paul, U.S. senator for Kentucky and America's most prominent libertarian, makes a case against socialist ideology, showing the impact of its deadly legacy and the threat of its new rise in America"--
11) Catching waves
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kai Ford, a good surfer who respects the power of the sea, unfortunately does not always have the same respect for the privacy of other people.
12) Charlie's angels
Formats
Description
The Angels are working for the mysterious Charles Townsend, whose security and investigative agency has expanded internationally. With the world's smartest, bravest, and most highly trained women all over the globe, there are now teams of Angels guided by multiple Bosleys taking on the toughest jobs everywhere.
14) Violated online: how online slander can destroy your life and what you must do to protect yourself
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Publisher
Dunham Books
Pub. Date
2011
Author
Publisher
Nelson Current
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Big Brother gets up close and personal. Do you know about RFID (Radio Frquency IDentification)? Well, you should, because in just a few short years, this explosive new technology could tell marketers, criminals, and government snoops everything about you. Welcome to the world of spychips, where tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand will trace everyday objects--and even people--keeping tabs on everything you own and everywhere you go. In...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Privacy in the Age of Big Data highlights the many positive outcomes of digital surveillance and data collection, while also outlining those forms of data collection to which we do not always consent, and of which we are likely unaware, as well as the dangers inherent in such surveillance and tracking. Theresa M. Payton and Theodore Claypoole skillfully introduce readers to the many ways we are "watched" and how to change behaviors and activities...
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Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Balancing personal dignity and first amendment concerns has become increasingly challenging. In today's new media age, technology moves faster than the law, enabling modern media outlets to commit intrusions into private endeavors for the sake of a story. With few legal limits governing the dissemination of information online, individuals--whether news affiliates or anonymous writers--can become publishers, freely divulging the details of citizens'...
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Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
We have entered the age of "peep culture": a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security, and even humanity. Peep culture is reality TV, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chat rooms, amateur porn, surveillance technology, and more. Core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing.--From...
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