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I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Lori Andrews
Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
Simon & Schuster
January 2012
On Sale: January 10, 2012
256 pages ISBN: 1451650515 EAN: 9781451650518 Kindle: B004T4KXPU Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
A shocking expose of how the web is being used to violate
our basic individual rights. Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our
time, empowering us in constantly evolving ways. We can all
now be reporters, alerting the world to breaking news of a
natural disaster; we can participate in crowd-sourced
scientific research; and we can become investigators,
helping the police solve crimes. Social networks have even
helped to bring down governments. But they have also greatly
accelerated the erosion of our personal privacy rights, and
any one of us could become the victim of shocking violations
at any time. If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest
nation in the world; but while that nation appears to be a
comforting small town, in which we socialize with our
selective group of friends, it and the rest of the Web is
actually a lawless frontier of hidden and unpredictable
dangers. The same power of information that can topple
governments can destroy a person’s career or marriage. As leading expert on social networks and privacy Lori
Andrews shows, through groundbreaking in-depth research and
a host of stunning stories of abuses, as we work and chat
and shop and date (and even sometimes have sex) over the
Web, we are opening ourselves up to increasingly intrusive,
relentless, and anonymous surveillance—by employers,
schools, lawyers, the police, and aggressive data aggregator
services that compile an astonishing amount of information
about us and sell it to any and all takers. She reveals the
myriad ever more sophisticated techniques being used to
track us and discloses how routinely colleges and employers
reject applicants due to personal information searches;
robbers use postings about vacations to target homes for
break-ins; lawyers readily find information to use against
us in divorce and child custody cases; and at one school,
the administrators actually used the cameras on students’
school-provided laptops to spy on them in their homes. Some
mobile Web devices are even being programmed to listen in on
us and feed data services a steady stream of information
about where we are and what we are doing. And even if we use the best services to get our personal
data removed from the Web, in a short time almost all that
data is restored. As Andrews persuasively argues, the legal
system cannot be counted on to protect us—in the thousands
of cases brought to trial by those whose rights have been
violated, judges have most often ruled against them. That is
why in addition to revealing the dangers and providing the
best expert advice about protecting ourselves, Andrews
proposes that we must all become supporters of a
Constitution for the Web, which she has drafted and
introduces in this book. Now is the time to join her and take action—the very future
of privacy is at stake.
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