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Privacy in the Age of Big Data

Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family

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Privacy in the Age of Big Data

Recognizing Threats, Defending Your Rights, and Protecting Your Family

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Description

We have a global privacy problem. The average person provides their personal information to outsiders more than any other time in history. Corporations, governments and even our neighbors can know where we are, who we meet, and can quickly learn all of our preferences and priorities.

The past decade has brought deep changes in the collection of our private information, the regulation of that collection, and in people's sensitivity to loss of privacy. The nascent privacy-threatening technology trends of a decade ago have blossomed into relentless data-capturing systems. To address the expansion of personal data capture, entire data regulatory regimes have arisen throughout the world, with new regulations added each year. People are more concerned, regulators are more aggressive, yet data collection continues to increase with consequences around the world. People want to keep their lives private, but they don't know how.

Lawyer Ted Claypoole and cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton address the significant advances in data-driven technology, their intrusion into our lives, the new security challenges of world rife with ransomware and hacking, and what we can do about it.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Your Life on Technology
Chapter 1. The Intersection of Privacy, Law and Technology
Section I: Your Computer and the Internet
Chapter 2. Your Computer is Watching You
Chapter 3. How the Government Follows Your Electronic Tracks
Chapter 4. Criminals and Snoops
Chapter 5. Just Hanging Out Online
Chapter 6. The Spy in Your Pocket
Section II: Risk in the Streets
Chapter 7. Cameras Everywhere
Chapter 8. When Your Car is Just Another Computer
Chapter 9. When Your Own Body Gives You Away
Chapter 10. DNA and Health Records
Section III: Home is Where the Heart (of Surveillance) Is
Chapter 11. Home Sweet Home: Spies in Your Living Room
Chapter 12. Risks of Computer and Phone Networks
Section IV: Where Do We Go from Here?
Chapter 13. Reality Meets the Metaverse Plus
Chapter 14. Judging You by Your Data
Chapter 15. The Future of Technology and Privacy
Chapter 16. Laws and Regulations That Could Help Preserve Privacy
Index
About the Authors

Product details

Published 12 Nov 2026
Format Paperback
Edition 2nd
Pages 368
ISBN 9798216470670
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Theresa Payton

Theresa M. Payton served as the first female Chief…

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Ted Claypoole

Ted Claypoole is a partner at the law firm of Womb…

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