Charles Jennings, Elizabeth Dyson, Lori Fena

The Hundredth Window

Protecting Your Privacy and Security in the Age of the Internet

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Produktbeschreibung

Privacy, whether we like it or not, has gone public. We are only just beginning to recognize how the Internet has redefined the relationship between our private lives and the public sphere. Every time we personalize a Web site, join a mailing list, or purchase a book or CD online, we open our lives to an ever-widening data network that offers us scant protection from the prying eyes of corporations, governments, insurance companies, or criminals. Has the e-commerce revolution permanently eroded all personal boundaries, or is it still possible to protect one's personal information in an increasingly wired world? Charles Jennings and Lori Fena have devoted their careers to this question, most notably as the founders of TRUSTe, the leading privacy assurance and monitoring organization on the Internet. They have been instrumental in developing standards for judging how Web sites use and protect the personal information they collect, and they have advised numerous corporations who recognize that trust is the key to economic growth and expansion in the e-commerce world. Security experts often say that if you put bars across ninety-nine of your windows but leave the hundredth window open, the invaders can still get in. For computer privacy, then, the question becomes, How can you best monitor that hundredth window? Jennings and Fena answer that question by providing a comprehensive guide to privacy and security in today's fast-moving online world, identifying winning and losing strategies for users and businesses alike. They argue that with so much information about us accessible through the Internet, we now need to think of privacy less as an inalienable right and more as apersonal skill to be practiced and sharpened regularly. And for companies doing business on the Web, they demonstrate the critical importance of ensuring a private and secure environment for one's customers. "The Hundredth Window" is also an invaluable source of useful informati

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Free Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780743254984
• ISBN-10: 0743254988
• Artikelnr.: 21139573

Autorenporträt

Charles Jennings is the co-founder of TRUSTe and of the Internet firms Preview Systems, GeoTrust, and Supertracks. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword by Esther Dyson
Introduction
1 Invasion of the Data Snatchers
2 The Hundredth Window
3 Something Digital This Way Comes
4 Privacy and Net Culture: Sex, Spies, and Video-Scrape
5 The Datanet Rules
6 From E-Commerce to Information Economies
7 Who Can You Trust?
8 The Privacy Game
9 Private Lives, Public Networks: The Next 500 Years
Appendix A:
Playing It Safe on the Web: Consumer Dos and Don?ts
Appendix B:
Online Privacy Violation Incidents
Notes
Glossary
Index