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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mitzi the lamb outsmarts a nosy wolf, who keeps asking Mitzi personal questions about herself, by challenging him to a dance-off. Discusses the concept of digital citizenship and provides rules and tips for the responsible and safe use of technology and the Internet.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A leading specialist on social networks writes a shocking expose of the widespread misuse of our personal online data and creates a Constitution for the web to protect us. Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time. Over a half a billion people are on Facebook alone. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest nation in the world. But while that nation appears to be a comforting small town in which we can share photos...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World provides the first serious scholarly analysis of an increasingly important legal claim--the right of publicity. This unwieldy law, often the darling of celebrities, protects against the use of a person's identity without permission. Often erroneously thought to have been created in the 1950s, the law has expanded into a new type of intellectual property right that limits free speech and...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pegasus is widely regarded as the most effective and sought-after cyber-surveillance system on the market. The system's creator, the NSO Group, a private corporation headquartered in Israel, is not shy about proclaiming its ability to thwart terrorists and criminals. "Thousands of people in Europe owe their lives to hundreds of our company employees," NSO's cofounder declared in 2019. This bold assertion may be true, at least in part, but it's by...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Be prepared: Value of HIPAA risk assessment. A comprehensive security risk assessment is an important and necessary strategy for health care organizations to identify gaps in their privacy and security environments. While risk assessments alone do not directly mitigate data breaches, risk exposure decreases significantly when an organization knows exactly where protected health information (PHI) resides and how it is handled. We will cover reasons...
Publisher
IT Governance Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
All organisations - wherever they are in the world - that process the personal data of EU residents must comply with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Failure to do so could cost them up to €20 million or 4% of annual global turnover in fines, whichever is greater. Now in its third edition, EU GDPR - An Implementation and Compliance Guide is a clear and comprehensive book providing detailed commentary on the Regulation. Read this book...
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Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
mayo de 2017.
Language
Español
Description
Premio Alfaguara de novela 201700Una historia sobre la autoridad y la manipulación colectiva con ecos de Kafka y Orwell. Una fábula sobre el destierro, la pérdida, la paternidad y los afectos.00Han pasado diez largos años desde que estalló la guerra, y el matrimonio sigue sin conocer el paradero de sus hijos, sin saber si su país fue el agresor o el agredido. Fuera cual fuese el origen de la contienda, él, hombre de campo, y ella, su antigua...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant and a confidential informant are killed in a deadly shootout. Left to pick up the pieces is Mary Grant, Joe's young wife and mother of their two daughters. The official report places blame for the deaths on Joe's shoulders ... but the story just doesn't add up and Mary has too many troubling questions that need answers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2017.
Language
English
Description
We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There is an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke, and, concrete...
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"The Internet has been romanticized as a zone of freedom. The alluring combination of sophisticated technology with low barriers to entry and instantaneous outreach to millions of users has mesmerized libertarians and communitarians alike. Lawmakers have joined the celebration, passing the Communications Decency Act, which enables Internet Service Providers to allow unregulated discourse without danger of liability, all in the name of enhancing freedom...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens.
"Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon developed a godlike surveillance device that will someday be used over every major city on the planet. This new technology--and its most powerful iteration to date, Gorgon Stare--can track thousands of moving targets at once over vast...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be 'secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.' Of course, 'papers and effects' are now digital and thus more vulnerable to government spying. But the biggest threat may be our own weakening resolve to preserve our privacy....
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the first week of June 2013, the American people discovered that for a decade, they had abjectly traded their individual privacy for the chimera of national security. The revelation that the federal government has full access to all phone records and the vast trove of presumably private personal data posted on the Internet has brought the threat of a surveillance society to the fore. But the erosion of privacy rights extends far beyond big government....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
David versus Goliath in Silicon Valley-an epic attempt to take back the Internet Their idea was simple. Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control their personal data, instead of surrendering it to big businesses like Facebook. They called it Diaspora. In days, they raised $200,000, and reporters, venture capitalists, and the digital community's most legendary figures were soon monitoring their progress....
Author
Series
Publisher
IBM Corporation, International Technical Support Organization
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The role of the IT solutions is to enforce the correct handling of personal data using processes developed by the establishment. Each element of the solution stack must address the objectives as appropriate to the data that it handles. Typically, personal data exists either in the form of structured data (like databases) or unstructured data (like files, text, documents, and so on.). This IBM Redbooks publication specifically deals with unstructured...
Author
Publisher
Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania home. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took their clothes and car, and left them unharmed. The Hills quickly became the subject of international media coverage. Public interest eventually died out, and the Hills went back to their ordinary, obscure lives. Until, a few years later, the Hills were...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Every day, Americans make decisions about their privacy: what to share and when, how much to expose and to whom. Securing the boundary between one's private affairs and public identity has become a central task of citizenship. How did privacy come to loom so large in American life? Sarah Igo tracks this elusive social value across the twentieth century, as individuals questioned how they would, and should, be known by their own society. Privacy was...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"As the debate about out-of-control policing heats up, an authority on constitutional law offers a provocative account of how our rights have been eroded In June 2013, documents leaked by Edward Snowden sparked widespread debate about secret government surveillance of Americans. Just over a year later, the shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, set off protests and triggered concern about militarization and discriminatory...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Adam Tanner exposes the greatest threat to privacy today. It's not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers and other firms are gathering data behind the scenes with little oversight from anyone.
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