The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet - Softcover

Solove, Daniel J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300138776 ISBN 13: 9780300138771

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there's a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives--often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false--will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy.
Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cybermobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Long-standing notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balance between privacy and free speech, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free.

About this title

Review

" No one has thought more about the effects of the information age on privacy than Daniel Solove." -- Bruce Schneier, author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World"
" A timely, vivid, and illuminating book that will change the way you think about privacy, reputation, and speech on the Internet. Daniel Solove tells a series of fascinating and frightening stories about how blogs, social network sites, and other websites are spreading gossip and rumors about people''s private lives. He offers a fresh and thought-provoking analysis of a series of wide-ranging new problems and develops useful suggestions about what we can do about these challenges." -- Paul M. Schwartz, professor of law, University of California Berkeley School of Law
" No one has thought more about the effects of the information age on privacy than Daniel Solove. " -- Bruce Schneier, author of Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World
" As the Internet is erasing the distinction between spoken and written gossip, the future of personal reputation is one of our most vexing social challenges. In this illuminating book, filled with memorable cautionary tales, Daniel Solove incisively analyzes the technological and legal challenges and offers moderate, sensible solutions for navigating the shoals of the blogosphere. " -- Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd& nbsp;
" A timely, vivid, and illuminating book that will change the way you think about privacy, reputation, and speech on the Internet.& nbsp; Daniel Solove tells a series of fascinating and frightening stories about how blogs, social network sites, and other websites are spreading gossip and rumors about people''s private lives.& nbsp; He offers a fresh and thought-provoking analysis of a series of wide-ranging new problems and develops useful suggestions about what we can do about these challenges. " -- Paul M. Schwartz, professor of law, University of California Berkeley School of Law
"No one has thought more about the effects of the information age on privacy than Daniel Solove."--Bruce Schneier, author of "Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World"
"As the Internet is erasing the distinction between spoken and written gossip, the future of personal reputation is one of our most vexing social challenges. In this illuminating book, filled with memorable cautionary tales, Daniel Solove incisively analyzes the technological and legal challenges and offers moderate, sensible solutions for navigating the shoals of the blogosphere."--Jeffrey Rosen, author of "The Unwanted Gaze" and "The Naked Crowd"
"A timely, vivid, and illuminating book that will change the way you think about privacy, reputation, and speech on the Internet. Daniel Solove tells a series of fascinating and frightening stories about how blogs, social network sites, and other websites are spreading gossip and rumors about people''s private lives. He offers a fresh and thought-provoking analysis of a series of wide-ranging new problems and develops useful suggestions about what we can do about these challenges."--Paul M. Schwartz, professor of law, University of California Berkeley School of Law
-- Paul M. Schwartz

About the Author

Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is a Senior Policy Advisor at Hogan Lovells. He is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a company that provides privacy and data security training programs to businesses, schools, healthcare institutions, and other organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300138776
• ISBN 13: 9780300138771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492