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Privacy in the age of big data : recognizing threats, defending your rights, and protecting your family / by Payton, Theresa,1966-; Claypoole, Ted,1963-author.;
Highlights the many positive outcomes of digital surveillance and data collection while also outlining those forms of data collection to which we may not consent, and of which we are likely unaware.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Privacy, Right of; Data protection; Electronic surveillance;
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Data and Goliath : the hidden battles to collect your data and control your world / by Schneier, Bruce,1963-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Data as a by-product of computing -- Data as surveillance -- Analyzing our data -- The business of surveillance -- Government surveillance and control -- Consolidation of institutional control -- Political liberty and justice -- Commercial fairness and equality -- Business competitiveness -- Privacy -- Security -- Principles -- Solutions for government -- Solutions for corporations -- Solutions for the rest of us -- Social norms and the big data trade-off.Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we're offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, and chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we've gained? Security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He shows us what we can do to reform our government surveillance programs and shake up surveillance-based business models, while also providing tips for you to protect your privacy every day.
Subjects: Electronic surveillance; Information technology; Computer security.; Privacy, Right of.; Social control.;
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Everyday surveillance : vigilance and visibility in postmodern life / by Staples, William G.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-243) and index.Everyday surveillance -- The scaffold, the penitentiary, and beyond -- The gaze and its compulsions -- Bodily intrusions -- Wired. I. Am: the digital life 2.0 -- The anatomy of visibility."When we think of surveillance in our society, we usually imagine "Big Brother" scenarios with the government tracking our every move. The actual surveillance of our everyday lives is much more subtle, however, and may be more insidious. William G. Staples shows how our lives are tracked by both public and private organizations --sometimes with our consent, and sometimes without--through our internet use, cell phones, public video cameras, credit cards, license plates, shopping habits, and more. Everyday Surveillance is a provocative exploration of the myriad ways we are watched each day, and how this surveillance shapes our lives. Thoroughly revised, the second edition considers new topics, such as the rise of social media, and updates research throughout. Everyday Surveillance introduces students to concepts of social control and incites classroom discussion about how surveillance impacts the ways we understand people and our lives at home, work, school, or in the community."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Social control; Electronic surveillance; Privacy;
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Terms of service : social media and the price of constant connection / by Silverman, Jacob.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The ideology of social -- Engineered to like -- Pics or it didn't happen -- The viral dream -- Churnalism and the problem of social news -- To watch and be watched -- The war against identity -- The reputation racket -- Life and work in the sharing economy -- Digital serfdom; or, we all work for Facebook -- The myth of privacy -- Big Data and the informational appetite -- Social-media rebellion."Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystallizes the current moment in technology and contemplates its implications: the identity-validating pleasures and perils of online visibility; our newly adopted view of daily life through the lens of what is share-worthy; and the surveillance state operated by social media platforms--Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others--to mine our personal data for advertising revenue: an invasion of our lives that is as pervasive as government spying. Jacob Silverman calls for social media users to take back ownership of their digital selves from the Silicon Valley corporations who claim to know what's best for them. Integrating politics, sociology, national security, pop culture, and technology, he reveals the surprising conformity at the heart of Internet culture, explaining how social media companies engineer their products to encourage shallow engagement and discourage dissent. Reflecting on the collapsed barriers between our private and public lives, Silverman brings into focus the inner conflict we feel when deciding what to share and what to "like," and explains how we can take the steps we need to free ourselves from its grip."--Publisher description.
Subjects: Information technology; Information technology; Privacy, Right of.; Electronic surveillance;
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Who's watching? : daily practices of surveillance among contemporary families / by Nelson, Margaret K.,1944-; Garey, Anita Ilta,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references."Nested responsibility" and the monitoring of children and parents in family court / Anita Ilta Garey -- "Where are you and what are you doing?" : familial back-up work as a collateral consequence of house arrest / William G. Staples -- Bring it on home : home drug testing and the relocation of the war on drugs / Dawn Moore and Kevin D. Haggerty -- Interracial surveillance and biological privilege : adoptive families in the public eye / Heather Jacobson -- Playground panopticism : ring-around-the-children, a pocketful of women / Holly Blackford -- "I saw your nanny" : gossip and shame in the surveillance of child care / Margaret K. Nelson -- The social impact of amniocentesis / Rayna Rapp -- Turning strangers into kin : half siblings and anonymous donors / Rosanna Hertz -- The powers of parental observation : constructing networks of care / Karen V. Hansen -- "Show me you can be a father" : maternal monitoring and recruitment of fathers for involvement in low-income families / Kevin Roy and Linda M. Burton -- Watching children : describing the use of baby monitors on Epinions.com / Margaret K. Nelson -- Policing gender boundaries : parental monitoring of preschool children's gender nonconformity / Emily W. Kane -- "I trust them but I don't trust them" : issues and dilemmas in monitoring teenagers / Demie Kurz -- The electronic tether : communication and parental monitoring during the college years / Barbara K. Hofer ... [et al.].
Subjects: Home detention; Electronic surveillance; Families; Parent and child; Child care; Child welfare; Familie; Überwachung; Kontrolle;
© c2009., Vanderbilt University Press,
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American privacy : the 400-year history of our most contested right / by Lane, Frederick S.,1963-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index.The declaration of privacy -- Postal politics, purity, and privacy -- Population, punch cards, and privacy -- Privacy in state courts and legislatures -- No more gentlemen : the rise of governmental espionage -- The peeping toms of public life -- The great red threats to privacy : credit cards and communism -- Privacy's golden hour : the Warren Court -- "Toward freedom from fear" : the privacy versus security debate intensifies -- The phantom delete key : the incredible durability of data -- No pc is an island : the rise of online communities -- Electronic exhibitionism and voyeurism : privacy in a webbed world.A sweeping story of the right to privacy as it sped along colonial postal routes, telegraph wires, and even today's fiber-optic cables, American Privacy traces the lineage of cultural norms and legal mandates that have swirled around the Fourth Amendment since its adoption. Legally, technologically, and historically grounded, Frederick Lane's book presents a vivid and penetrating exploration that, in the words of people's historian Howard Zinn, "challenges us to defend our most basic rights."
Subjects: Privacy, Right of; Government information; Confidential communications; Data protection; Disclosure of information; Electronic surveillance; Eavesdropping;
© C2009., Beacon Press,
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Busted : [electronic resource] : Will Trent series, book 6.5. by Slaughter, Karin.; Early, Kathleen.;
Narrator: Kathleen Early.Detective Will Trent is standing in a Georgia convenience store, waiting on an obstinate ICEE frozen-drink machine. To the surveillance cameras and bored staff of the Lil' Dixie Gas-n-Go, however, Will appears to be someone very different -- the menacing ex-con Bill Black. Going undercover as Bill, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent is about to infiltrate the most corrupt town in the most corrupt county in the new American South. But first: his ICEE. Everything changes in one horrific instant, as all hell breaks loose at the Lil' Dixie. A cop is shot. A bag of cash goes flying across the floor. A young woman disappears while a killer takes off in a battered pickup truck. Within seconds, Will is in pursuit.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 67634 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Thriller.;
© 2014., Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Buck 50 Productions, LLC,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1742089 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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There's something in a Sunday : [electronic resource] : Sharon McCone mystery series, book 8. by Muller, Marcia.; Hicks, Laura.;
Narrator: Laura Hicks.It's a cold Sunday in San Francisco. Sharon McCone's alone on a routine surveillance job, following a man named Frank Wilkonson through the city's lush horticultural hot spots to the sere foothills of the Diablos. But when she returns to find her kindly old client in a pool of blood, nothing she's learned explains it. The search of answers takes her from Wilkonson's sullen brood on Burning Oak Ranch, to the eccentric havoc of a household in the Haight, to Golden Gate Park and the desperate digs of the homeless. Unraveling the threads that link a homeless man, a pair of prominent activists, a wayward rancher, and a mysterious missing beauty, Sharon is plunged into the depths of domestic mayhem...entering a realm where dreams shatter and marriage leads to bloody murder.Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 245367 KB).
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Mystery.;
© 2013., Sound Library,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1192377 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive;
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How does it feel to be a problem? : [electronic resource] : Being young and Arab in America. by Bayoumi, Moustafa.;
Just over a century ago , W.E.B. Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk : How does it feel to be a problem? Now, Moustafa Bayoumi asks the same about America's new "problem"-Arab- and Muslim-Americans. Bayoumi takes readers into the lives of seven twenty-somethings living in Brooklyn, home to the largest Arab-American population in the United States. He moves beyond stereotypes and clichés to reveal their often unseen struggles, from being subjected to government surveillance to the indignities of workplace discrimination. Through it all, these young men and women persevere through triumphs and setbacks as they help weave the tapestry of a new society that is, at its heart, purely American.Text Difficulty 6 - Text Difficulty 81010Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Sociology.;
© 2009.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=3033913 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Poster girl / [electronic resource]. by Roth, Veronica.;
WHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan -- she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from the Insight's monitoring, went on with their lives. Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom. The path Sonya takes to find the child will lead her through an unfamiliar, crooked post-Delegation world where she finds herself digging deeper into the past—and her family's dark secrets -- than she ever wanted to.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Fantasy.; Science Fiction.;
© 2022.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=8566908 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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