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The Internet is great—until someone hacks your accounts or otherwise violates your privacy. This expert book provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of the key issues and risks relative to online privacy and explains how to counter those risks with solutions everyone needs to know. Rampant violation of online privacy is a problem of epic proportions—and impossible to stamp out. Online Privacy: A Reference Handbook provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-understand investigation of the history of and controversies surrounding online privacy. It overviews the most critical issues involving topics such as social networking and online medical records. Along the way, this book shares insights and information from experts active in the field and exposes many misconceptions about what is and isn't considered private in the online world. Authors Dixon and Gellman begin with an overview of online privacy that elucidates why this 21st century issue is so critical. They provide key guideposts throughout the book that allow readers to grasp these complex and ever-changing issues, addressing topics that include what comprises online privacy today, what protections exist in current law, and current challenges in international online privacy. The authors also present practical expert advice, providing measures and strategies that readers can take to protect themselves.

During the siege of Philadelphia in 1777, when the stressed colonials were being pressured to suspend the writ of habeus corpus and keep Tories in the Philadelphia jails, Benjamin Franklin wrote in opposition to their release that \"he who would sacrifice our civil liberties for momentary security deserves neither, and will soon find himself without both!\" Much later, in the years prior to World War II, the IBM corporation had begun to sell its punch card-based data management systems to western European governments, particularly France and the Netherlands, to support census modernization. Former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Bob Pitofsky famously told Congress, \"you may have security without privacy, but you cannot have privacy without security\" Indeed, the adaptations and innovations in information technology generating behavior-changing societal and technology innovations now provide the means to improve the security of our fundamental democratic processes like the courts and our electoral processes; but they also, and especially with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), may permit us to divert, corrupt, or otherwise adversely impact the legitimacy, conduct, and conclusions of those and other core democratic institutions. For many, our conception of privacy-both individual and institutional-has developed in the shadow of Supreme Court opinions like Griswold that integrate and extend the Fourth Amendment protections of individuals from state action to the core First Amendment \"civil liberty\" freedoms.1 This article is a primer on questions of the present posture and future viability of privacy as a civil liberty and the impacts that technologies such as ubiquitous personal computing, networking, massive cloud data storage, and AI/ML are demonstrating on privacy norms circa 2024. [...]we explore recent experiences of privacy legislation being turned from supporting citizen rights in a democracy to becoming a means of controlling individual rights and behavior.

At the recent International Data Protection Commissioners' meeting, keynote speaker Michael Kirby, Justice of the High Court of Australia and chair of the committee that produced the original OECD privacy guidelines, reviewed the history of the guidelines, calling them a union of economics and human rights. Technology was a major subject among the commissioners, as was the European Union data protection directive. The most provocative paper at the conference focused on major differences in the way that international privacy principles are applied in practice.