
What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Internet Privacy?
Paul Bernal(Author)
SAGE Publications Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 20. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-5297-0767-0 (ISBN)
Description
Privacy on the internet is challenged in a wide variety of ways - from large social media companies, whose entire business models are based on privacy invasion, through the developing technologies of facial recognition, to the desire of governments to monitor our every activity online. But the impact these issues have on our daily lives is often underplayed or misunderstood.
In this book, Paul Bernal analyses how the internet became what it is today, exploring how the current manifestation of the internet works for people, for companies and even for governments, with reference to the new privacy battlefields of location and health data, the internet of things and the increasingly contentious issue of personal data and political manipulation. The author then proposes what we should do about the problems surrounding internet privacy, such as significant changes in government policy, a reversal of the current 'war' on encryption, being brave enough to take on the internet giants, and challenging the idea that 'real names' would improve the discourse on social networks.
Written by leading social scientists, the What Do We Know and What Should We Do About...? series offers concise, up-to-date overviews of issues often oversimplified, misrepresented or misunderstood and shows you how to enact change.
"Short, sharp and compelling." - Alex Preston, The Observer
"If you want to learn a lot about what matters most, in as short a time as possible, this is the series for you."- Danny Dorling, 1971 Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
In this book, Paul Bernal analyses how the internet became what it is today, exploring how the current manifestation of the internet works for people, for companies and even for governments, with reference to the new privacy battlefields of location and health data, the internet of things and the increasingly contentious issue of personal data and political manipulation. The author then proposes what we should do about the problems surrounding internet privacy, such as significant changes in government policy, a reversal of the current 'war' on encryption, being brave enough to take on the internet giants, and challenging the idea that 'real names' would improve the discourse on social networks.
Written by leading social scientists, the What Do We Know and What Should We Do About...? series offers concise, up-to-date overviews of issues often oversimplified, misrepresented or misunderstood and shows you how to enact change.
"Short, sharp and compelling." - Alex Preston, The Observer
"If you want to learn a lot about what matters most, in as short a time as possible, this is the series for you."- Danny Dorling, 1971 Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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If you want to learn a lot about what matters most, in as short a time as possible, this is the series for you. -- Danny DorlingMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
127 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5297-0767-0 (9781529707670)
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Person
Paul Bernal is Associate Professor of IT, IP and Media Law at the UEA Law School, University of East Anglia, UK. His research focusses on privacy and other human rights on the internet and the role of social media. He blogs, tweets and contributes to journalism on these and many other related areas - and even occasionally writes poetry.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Background
Chapter 3: What do we know?
Chapter 4: What should we do?
Chapter 5: Conclusion
Chapter 2: Background
Chapter 3: What do we know?
Chapter 4: What should we do?
Chapter 5: Conclusion