The Privacy Fix: How to Preserve Privacy in the Onslaught of Surveillance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108486712)

Online surveillance of our behavior by private companies is on the increase, particularly through the Internet of Things and the increasing use of algorithmic decision-making. This troubling trend undermines privacy and increasingly threatens our ability to control how information about us is shared and used. Written by a computer scientist and a legal scholar, The Privacy Fix proposes a set of evidence-based, practical solutions that will help solve this problem. Requiring no technical or legal expertise, the book explains complicated concepts in clear, straightforward language. Bridging the gap between computer scientists, economists, lawyers, and public policy makers, this book provides theoretically and practically sound public policy guidance about how to preserve privacy in the onslaught of surveillance. It emphasizes the need to make tradeoffs among the complex concerns that arise, and it outlines a practical norm-creation process to do so.

Author: Robert H. Sloan, Richard Warner
ISBN-10: 1108486711
ISBN-13: 9781108486712
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2021
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2022