Privacy, Information And Technology

Privacy, Information, and Technology, with its comprehensive approach, is ideal for use in cyberlaw, law and technology, privacy law, and information law courses and seminars.

Features include:

• Perfect addendum for instructors wanting to cover information privacy issues in more depth in their courses and provides material for one to three weeks worth of class instruction. It is a great addition to courses in communications, media, cyberspace, information society, and technology
• Extensive and clear background about the law and policy issues relating to information privacy and computers, databases, and the Internet Useful in undergraduate and graduate courses for an introduction to information privacy and technology issues because it explains the law clearly for the layperson
• Introductory chapter provides comprehensive thought-provoking philosophical discussion of information privacy
• Covers emerging information technologies: computer databases, RFID, cookies, spyware, and data mining
• Covers new issues such as privacy and access to public records, government access to personal information, airline passenger screening and profiling, data mining, identity theft, consumer privacy issues, and financial privacy