This past April, the CharlotteLaw Library Technical Services team embarked on the phenomenal task of creating our very own READ posters . We chose this project in order to celebrate our library, our patrons, and reading (outside of those legal, or lethal, case books). By featuring our posters in the upcoming weeks and months, we hope that you will get to know the CharlotteLaw Library Team little better.
Our fearless leader, Bobbie’s 2009 READ Poster
The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age / Daniel J. Solove
I chose this book for the READ poster because many of us do not realize that the digital dossiers we create every day when we apply for new credit, shop on-line, or use our cell phones encroach on privacy in very significant ways. I believe that The Digital Person is a must read for law students and professors because of the timely information it supplies about spyware, web bugs, data mining, the USA-Patriot Act, and many other types of privacy assaults.
Synopsis
Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databases—which Daniel J. Solove calls “digital dossiers”—has thus far gone largely unchecked. In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and using personal data, Solove explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy.
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June 18, 2009 at 5:12 pm
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