Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World - Hardcover

Cavoukian, Ann; Tapscott, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070633207 ISBN 13: 9780070633209

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1996

Synopsis

This text examines the ways in which corporations and government are accumulating a wealth of personal information, often by means that seem less than legitimate and for purposes of which you may not be aware. The book goes on to suggest way to protect your privacy.

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From the Back Cover

WHO KNOWS what you. . .Earn in a year? Spent on your latest car? Bought your spouse as a birthday gift? Take for indigestion, incontinence, or impotence? WHO KNOWS where you. . .Get your long-distance service? Have your prescriptions filled? Take your vacations? Invest your money? WHO KNOWS if you have ever/ . . Responded to a personals ad? Been fired? Declared bankruptcy? Had an abortion? Seen a psychotherapist? Been tested for AIDS? With alarming accuracy, the most personal facts of our lives find their way into computer files and data banks. At this very moment, companies and governments are busy gathering and exchanging our medical, financial, consumer, and employment records without our consent. And the explosive growth of the Internet is only making matters worse. How did this outrageous invasion of privacy come about? How can you begin to reverse the trEND, for yourself and society? This shocking expose will provoke you to act before it's too late. Read this book to learn how the networked world has compromised your privacy and what you can do about it!

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070633207
• ISBN 13: 9780070633209
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 233