Book Review on Consumer, Personal, Cell Phone and Internet Privacy Issues
People have been talking about the Internet and online privacy for quite a while, for as long as I've used that is.
I can remember some folks discussing it back in 1993 even, and by 1996 some folks were getting alarmed, and with good reason.
It was clear back then, that this was going to become a huge problem, especially as public records were being put online.
Thus, the whole concept of privacy, well it kind of went out the window from there.
Today, we are complaining about social networks and privacy, as well as businesses divulging information, but it's not as if people do not freely give up their rights to privacy often enough of their own free will, yes, in trade for some online service or freebie.
To get a better understanding of all this perhaps you need some back ground on the topic, how we got here today and the reality that we never really did have complete guaranteed privacy, online the illusion of such.
Now then I'd certainly like to recommend a very good book to you on this topic if you'd like to get a bit of history.
This way when you are discussing this subject you will understand how we got here today.
The name of the book I'd like to recommend is: "Privacy on the Line - The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption," by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1999), pp.
364, ISBN: 0-262-04167-7.
You will learn the arguments on both sides, the real issues of National Security, and what goes on behind the scenes.
And from there you can easily imagine what goes on today.
It hardly takes much thinking to see it, or much reading to see where all this is going from here.
Please consider all this.
++ Also recommend reading to bring you up to speed are these two articles recently in the Wall Street Journal, namely;
I can remember some folks discussing it back in 1993 even, and by 1996 some folks were getting alarmed, and with good reason.
It was clear back then, that this was going to become a huge problem, especially as public records were being put online.
Thus, the whole concept of privacy, well it kind of went out the window from there.
Today, we are complaining about social networks and privacy, as well as businesses divulging information, but it's not as if people do not freely give up their rights to privacy often enough of their own free will, yes, in trade for some online service or freebie.
To get a better understanding of all this perhaps you need some back ground on the topic, how we got here today and the reality that we never really did have complete guaranteed privacy, online the illusion of such.
Now then I'd certainly like to recommend a very good book to you on this topic if you'd like to get a bit of history.
This way when you are discussing this subject you will understand how we got here today.
The name of the book I'd like to recommend is: "Privacy on the Line - The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption," by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1999), pp.
364, ISBN: 0-262-04167-7.
You will learn the arguments on both sides, the real issues of National Security, and what goes on behind the scenes.
And from there you can easily imagine what goes on today.
It hardly takes much thinking to see it, or much reading to see where all this is going from here.
Please consider all this.
++ Also recommend reading to bring you up to speed are these two articles recently in the Wall Street Journal, namely;
- Wall Street Journal Article - "On the Web's Cutting Edge, Anonymity in Name Only," which was written by Emily Steel and Julia Angwin.
- "Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults Ahead," Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2010 - by Jessica E.
Vascellaro. - "The Great Privacy Debate," which was debated by Jim Harper of Cato Institute, versus Nicholas Carr who is the author of "The Swallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains," which appeared in the Saturday-Sunday Edition of the WSJ on August 7-8, 2010.