What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Internet Privacy?: 1 - Softcover

Bernal, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529707676 ISBN 13: 9781529707670

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition, to the desire of governments to monitor our every activity online. But the impact these issues have on our daily lives is often underplayed or misunderstood.

In this book, Paul Bernal analyses how the internet became what it is today, exploring how the current manifestation of the internet works for people, for companies and even for governments, with reference to the new privacy battlefields of location and health data, the internet of things and the increasingly contentious issue of personal data and political manipulation. The author then proposes what we should do about the problems surrounding internet privacy, such as significant changes in government policy, a reversal of the current ‘war’ on encryption, being brave enough to take on the internet giants, and challenging the idea that ‘real names’ would improve the discourse on social networks.

Written by leading social scientists, the What Do We Know and What Should We Do About...? series offers concise, up-to-date overviews of issues often oversimplified, misrepresented or misunderstood and shows you how to enact change.

"Short, sharp and compelling." - Alex Preston, The Observer

"If you want to learn a lot about what matters most, in as short a time as possible, this is the series for you."- Danny Dorling, 1971 Professor of Geography, University of Oxford

About this title

About the Author

Paul Bernal is Associate Professor of IT, IP and Media Law at the UEA Law School, University of East Anglia, UK. His research focusses on privacy and other human rights on the internet and the role of social media. He blogs, tweets and contributes to journalism on these and many other related areas – and even occasionally writes poetry.

From the Back Cover

Paul Bernal addresses the issue of privacy on the internet and how it is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition and the internet of things, to the desire of governments to monitor our every activity online.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529707676
• ISBN 13: 9781529707670
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88