L. Jean Camp

Economics of Identity Theft (eBook, PDF)

Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Today, identity is more than anything, economic. The technology used to create, utilize and protect identities is increasingly ill-matched to the economics and uses of identities. Identity theft is the misuse of private authenticating information to steal money. Protecting identity requires privacy. Proving identity requires exposing information. Together, these points illustrate that the near-term search for cheap identity management is a formula for long-term fraud resulting in ever-increasing identity theft.

The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures, a professional book, discusses privacy as multi-dimensional, and then pulls forward the economics of privacy in the first few chapters. This book also includes identity-based signatures, spyware, and the placement of biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The final chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status. In conclusion, four startling previews of the future are written as scenarios.

The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for advanced-level students in computer science, economics and several other disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer New York
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780387686141
• Artikelnr.: 37286989

Autorenporträt

L. Jean Camp, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Identity in Economics, and in Context.- Modern Technological and Traditional Social Identities.- Identity Theft.- Who Owns You?.- Defeating the Greatest Masquerade.- Secrecy, Privacy, Identity.- Security and Privacy as Market Failures.- Trusting Code and Trusting Hardware.- Technologies of Identity.- Anonymous Identifiers.- Digital Signatures.- Strengths and Weaknesses of Biometrics.- Reputation.- Scenario I: Your Credentials Please.- Scenario II: Universal National Identifier.- Scenario III: Sets of attributes.- Scenario IV: Ubiquitous Identity Theft.- Closing.

Rezensionen

From the reviews: "This book is primarily concerned with the interplay between identity management technologies and their associated economic impact. ... Overall, this book provides an interesting oversight of the economics of privacy and an overview of a range of identity management technologies in an economic context. ... It is certainly worthy of perusal, provided that its significant US bias and inconsistency in what is actually meant by 'identity theft' are recognised from the outset." (Stefan Fafinski, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, Vol. 7 (4), 2009)