The Spy in the Coffee Machine
The End of Privacy as We Know It
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2014
280 pages
978-1-78074-734-7 (ISBN)
Description
What do you know about the new surveillance state that has been created in the wake of pervasive computing ? that is, the increasing use of very small and simple computers in all sorts of host ? from your computer to your coat? Well, these little computers can communicate via the web and form powerful networks whose emergent behaviour can be very complex, intelligent, and invasive. The question is: how much of an infringement on privacy are they? Could these intelligent networks be used by governments, criminals or terrorists to undermine privacy or commit crimes? From CCTVs to blogging, from cookies to RFID tags, we are sleepwalking into a new state of global hypersurveillance. And when even cans of Coke are connected to the internet, the risk of someone misusing this information is very high indeed. Kieron O'Hara is Senior Research Fellow in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton, UK, and was President of the British Computer Society in 2006-7.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,44 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78074-734-7 (9781780747347)
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04/2008
Oneworld Publications
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Persons
Author Kieron O'Hara is Senior Research Fellow in the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group (IAM), in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. He is currently involved in the Office of Science and Technology's Cybertrust and Crime Prevention initiative. He is the author of two books in popular science and sociology: Plato and the Internet, and Trust: From Socrates to Spin. He also co-wrote the script for best-selling computer game Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation.
Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton, UK, and was President of the British Computer Society in its 50th anniversary year 2006-2007. He is Chief Technology Officer of internet security firm Garlik, and a director of the Web Science Research Initiative. He is both a chartered psychologist and a chartered engineer, and sits on a number of UK national science and technology committees.
Nigel Shadbolt is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Southampton, UK, and was President of the British Computer Society in its 50th anniversary year 2006-2007. He is Chief Technology Officer of internet security firm Garlik, and a director of the Web Science Research Initiative. He is both a chartered psychologist and a chartered engineer, and sits on a number of UK national science and technology committees.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The case of the disappearing body
- 2. The surveillance society
- 3. Computer security meets human idiocy: privacy enhancing technologies and their limits
- 4. The power of power: Moore's Law and practical obscurity
- 5. It's the links, stupid: the Internet, the World Wide Web and privatised spaces
- 6. Man's best friend is his blog: Web 2.0
- 7. They snoop to conquer: censorship, decisional privacy and ideological privacy
- 8. Where dust is smart and reality mixed: pervasive computing
- 9. Get ready, the panopticon's here
- Endnotes
- Index
