Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions
Edited by Marc Rotenberg, Julia Horwitz, Jeramie Scott
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"Inspired recommendations to help ensure our right to privacy remains a time-honored value in our interconnected world."- Senator Edward J. Markey
"Original insights into the most critical privacy, data protection, and surveillance concerns of our time."- Anita Allen
"A fascinating overview of current challenges to our privacy and how best to counter them."- Peter Hustinx
"EPIC has become one of America
"The Electronic Privacy Information Center is on the front lines of the most important civil liberties issues of our age."- Bruce Schneier
The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls, Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats, Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes, Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information, our medical records are available for sale to strangers, our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity, and small robots patrol our schoolyards while drones may soon fill our skies.
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Hardcover / $25.95 / 272 pages / ISBN 978-1-62097-107-9 / April 2015
Contributors include: Steven Aftergood, Ross Anderson, Christine L. Borgman (coauthored with Kent Wada and James F. Davis), Ryan Calo, Danielle Citron, Simon Davies, A. Michael Froomkin, Deborah Hurley, Kristina Irion, Jeff Jonas, Harry Lewis, Anna Lysyanskaya, Gary T. Marx, Aleecia M. McDonald, Dr. Pablo G. Molina, Peter G. Neumann, Helen Nissenbaum, Frank Pasquale, Dr. Deborah Peel, MD, Stephanie E. Perrin, Pamela Samuelson, Bruce Schneier, and Christopher Wolf
Marc Rotenberg is president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). He served as counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee and teaches at Georgetown University Law Center. EPIC is a public interest research group in Washington, D.C., established to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues in the information age. Jeramie Scott is national security counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Julia Horwitz is consumer protection counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
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