Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age

by National Research Council, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information trigger consumer worries. Online practices of business and government agencies may present new ways to compromise privacy, and e-commerce and technologies that make a wide range of personal information available to anyone with a Web browser only begin to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309103924
• ISBN13: 9780309103923
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"