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The Privacy Fix

How to Preserve Privacy in the Onslaught of Surveillance

Richard Warner author Robert H Sloan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:21st Oct '21

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Evidence-based solutions and practical steps to preserve privacy online.

Going beyond current books on privacy, The Privacy Fix proposes specific solutions to public policy issues connected with online privacy and practical steps for readers to protect themselves online. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, the book explains complicated concepts in clear, straightforward language.Online surveillance of our behavior by private companies is on the increase, particularly through the Internet of Things and the increasing use of algorithmic decision-making. This troubling trend undermines privacy and increasingly threatens our ability to control how information about us is shared and used. Written by a computer scientist and a legal scholar, The Privacy Fix proposes a set of evidence-based, practical solutions that will help solve this problem. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, the book explains complicated concepts in clear, straightforward language. Bridging the gap between computer scientists, economists, lawyers, and public policy makers, this book provides theoretically and practically sound public policy guidance about how to preserve privacy in the onslaught of surveillance. It emphasizes the need to make tradeoffs among the complex concerns that arise, and it outlines a practical norm-creation process to do so.

'Highly recommended.' G. E. Kaupins, Choice Connect

ISBN: 9781108486712

Dimensions: 235mm x 158mm x 18mm

Weight: 480g

280 pages