Bernal Paul
Bernal Paul - What Do We Know And What Should We Do About Internet Privacy? - Paperback
Bernal Paul - What Do We Know And What Should We Do About Internet Privacy? - Paperback
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Description: 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. About THE Series: The What Do We Know and What Should We Do About. ? series offers readers short up - to - date overviews of key issues often misrepresented simplified or misunderstood in modern society and the media. Each book is written by a leading social scientist with an established reputation in the relevant subject area. The Series Editor is Professor Chris Grey Royal Holloway University of London
Title: What Do We Know And What Should We Do About Internet Privacy?
Author(s): Bernal Paul
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781529707670
Pages: 88 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2020
Series: What Do We Know and What Should We Do About:
Category: Privacy & Data Protection
Description: 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. About THE Series: The What Do We Know and What Should We Do About. ? series offers readers short up - to - date overviews of key issues often misrepresented simplified or misunderstood in modern society and the media. Each book is written by a leading social scientist with an established reputation in the relevant subject area. The Series Editor is Professor Chris Grey Royal Holloway University of London
Title: What Do We Know And What Should We Do About Internet Privacy?
Author(s): Bernal Paul
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781529707670
Pages: 88 Pages
Publication Date: 3/1/2020
Series: What Do We Know and What Should We Do About:
Category: Privacy & Data Protection
