The Digital Person: Technology And Privacy In The Information Age (Google eBook)

Daniel J. Solove

NYU Press, 2004 - Technology & Engineering - 283 pages

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

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Fascinating stuff, but unfortunately a good bit of the material is dated as soon as it's printed.

Contents

• 1 Introduction: 1
• i computer databases: 11
• ii public records: 125
• iii government access: 163
• 12 Conclusion: 223
• Notes: 229
• Index: 267
• About the Author: 283

About the author

Daniel J. Solove is associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. He is the co-author of Information Privacy Law.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Digital Person: Technology And Privacy In The Information Age; Ex machina : law, teachnology, and society series; Volume 1 of Ex machina
• Author: Daniel J. Solove
• Publisher: NYU Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0814798462, 9780814798461
• Length: 283 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Social Aspects / General; Law / Communications; Law / Science & Technology; Technology & Engineering / Quality Control