Privacy, Information, and Technology (Aspen Electives)

Privacy, Information, and Technology (Aspen Electives)

A comprehensive and in-depth treatment of all the important information privacy issues.<b>Features:</b><ul><li>An <b>extensive and clear background about the law and policy issues relating to information privacy</b> and computers, databases, and the Internet</li><li> <b>Coverage of government surveillance topics,</b> such as Fourth Amendment, sensory enhancement technologies, wiretapping, computer searches, ISP records, <b>the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the USA-Patriot Act</b> </li><li><b>A thorough examination of new issues such as privacy and access to public records, government access to personal information,</b> airline passenger screening and profiling, data mining, identity theft, consumer privacy, and financial privacy</li><li>Several additional and new cases for coverage of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Privacy Act, and identity theft.</li><li><b>Coverage of emerging information technologies</b> such as computer databases, RFID, cookies, spyware, data mining, and others</li><li> An introductory chapter with <b>a thought-provoking philosophical discussion of information privacy</b> </li><li><b>Clear explanations of the law</b></li></ul><b>New to the Third Edition:</b><ul><li> <b>Expanded coverage of new technology that has an impact on privacy,</b>including social media, locational information and mobile telephony, and behavioral advertising</li><li><b>Anonymous litigation</b></li><li> <b>Expanded coverage of privacy and contract issues</b></li><li> <b>Updated coverage of the NSA surveillance program cases</b>, including Amnesty International USA v.Clapper</li><li> <b>New FTC cases</b>, including Sears, Econometrixand Google Buzz</li><li> <b><i>NASA v. Nelson</i></b>, a U.S. Supreme Court case regarding background questionnaires for employment and the constitutional right to information privacy</li><li> <b>Coverage of personally identifiable information</b></li><li> <b>Law enforcement access to GPS cases</b></li></ul>