Full Description
Succinct and eloquent, On Privacy and Technology is an essential primer on how to face the threats to privacy in today's age of digital technologies and AI.
With the rapid rise of new digital technologies and artificial intelligence, is privacy dead? Can anything be done to save us from a dystopian world without privacy?
In this short and accessible book, internationally renowned privacy expert Daniel J. Solove draws from a range of fields, from law to philosophy to the humanities, to illustrate the profound changes technology is wreaking upon our privacy, why they matter, and what can be done about them. Solove provides incisive examinations of key concepts in the digital sphere, including control, manipulation, harm, automation, reputation, consent, prediction, inference, and many others.
Compelling and passionate, On Privacy and Technology teems with powerful insights that will transform the way you think about privacy and technology.
Contents
Preface
Part I How to Think About Privacy and Technology
What is Privacy?
What is Technology?
Why is Privacy Important?
Framing and Metaphors
Myths
Part II Dimensions of Technological Change
Information and Knowledge
Judgments And Decisions
Thought and Behavior
Power
Part III Power, Law, And Accountability
Privacy and Power
The Law's Role
How the Law Should Develop
A Bolder Path for Law
Acknowledgments
About The Author
Notes
Index
