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The Digital Person : Technology and Privacy in the Information Age.

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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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Solove, Daniel J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2004.
Series:Ex Machina: Law, Technology and Society Series.
Subjects:
Privacy, Right of > United States.
Government information > United States.
Public records > Law and legislation > United States.
Electronic records > Access control > United States.
Data protection > Law and legislation > United States.
Data protection > Law and legislation.
Electronic records > Access control.
Government information.
Privacy, Right of.
Public records > Law and legislation.
United States.
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Summary: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. I.
Physical Description:1 online resource (295 pages)
ISBN:9780814708965
081470896X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Source of description: Print version record.

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