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Book SynopsisThe Internet is great—until someone hacks your accounts or otherwise violates your privacy. This expert book provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of the key issues and risks relative to online privacy and explains how to counter those risks with solutions everyone needs to know. Rampant violation of online privacy is a problem of epic proportions—and impossible to stamp out.
Online Privacy: A Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand investigation of the history of and controversies surrounding online privacy. It overviews the most critical issues involving topics such as social networking and online medical records. Along the way, this book shares insights and information from experts active in the field and exposes many misconceptions about what is and isn't considered private in the online world. Authors Dixon and Gellman begin with an overview of online privacy that elucidates why this 21st century issue is so critical. They provide key guideposts throughout the book that allow readers to grasp these complex and ever-changing issues, addressing topics that include what comprises online privacy today, what protections exist in current law, and current challenges in international online privacy. The authors also present practical expert advice, providing measures and strategies that readers can take to protect themselves.
Table of ContentsPreface 1. Background and History What Is Privacy? The Social, Cultural, and Legal Context of Privacy What Does
Online Mean Today? How Is Online Privacy Different? Is Privacy Still Important? Adapting the Law to New Technologies How Ideas about Privacy Have Adapted to an Online World 2. Problems, Controversies, and Solutions Key Controversies and Problems Overview of Privacy and Health Information Online Medical Privacy Issues Cloud Computing Social Networking Identity, Reidentification, and Deidentification Data Retention Privacy versus the First Amendment Overview of Remedies to Privacy Problems A Closer Look at Regulation versus Self-Regulation The FCRA Model Remedies in a Self-Regulated or Regulated World Consumer Choices: Opt In versus Opt Out Consumer Choices: Do Not Track 3. Worldwide Perspective Introduction to International Approaches Basic Approaches Differing Privacy Rules and Data Exports Internet Jurisdiction Basic Issues Other EU E-Privacy Directives The WHOIS Database 4. Chronology of Online Privacy 5. Biographical Sketches J. Howard Beales III Jerry Berman Louis Brandeis Julie Brill Jeff Chester Lorrie Faith Cranor Mary Culnan Simon Davies David Flaherty Michael Geist John Gilmore Beth Givens Susan Grant Jim Harper Evan Hendricks Chris Hoofnagle Masao Horibe Jane Horvath Peter Hustinx Nuala O'Connor Kelly Orin S. Kerr Patrick Leahy Jon Leibowitz Takato Natsui Jules Polonetsky Marc Rotenberg Rebecca Schaeffer Spiros Simitis Richard M. Smith Robert Ellis Smith Christopher Soghoian Tim Sparapani Latanya Sweeney Lee Tien David C. Vladeck Willis H. Ware Daniel J. Weitzner Philip R. Zimmermann 6. Data and Documents Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (9150) Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) 1980 Privacy Guidelines Warren and Brandeis,
The Right to Privacy, Harvard Law Review 1890
Olmstead v. United States Katz v. United States Electronic Communications Privacy Act Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 World Privacy Forum,
Privacy in the Clouds: Risks to Privacy and Confidentiality from Cloud Computing Federal Trade Commission Staff Report: Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising (2009) California Online Privacy Protection Act California Office of Privacy Protection 7. Directory of Organizations 8. Resources Books Fiction Nonfiction Nonprint Video Movies Webcasts Sound Clips Articles Reports Key Government Reports Key Nonprofit Reports, Studies, and Documents Key Academic Studies and Reports Online Resources General (Nongovernment) Internet Resources Government Resources Glossary Index About the Authors
