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Everything we do online, and increasingly in the real world, is tracked, logged, analyzed, and often packaged and sold on to the highest bidder. Every time you visit a website, use a credit card, drive on the freeway, or go past a CCTV camera, you are logged and tracked. Every day billions of people...

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Main Author: Sumner, Stuart (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Rispoli, Mike (technical editor.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Syngress is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016.
Subjects:
Data protection.
Computer security.
Computer Security
Protection de l'information (Informatique)
Sécurité informatique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industrial Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Management Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Organizational Behavior.
Computer security
Data protection
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Everything we do online, and increasingly in the real world, is tracked, logged, analyzed, and often packaged and sold on to the highest bidder. Every time you visit a website, use a credit card, drive on the freeway, or go past a CCTV camera, you are logged and tracked. Every day billions of people choose to share their details on social media, which are then sold to advertisers. The Edward Snowden revelations that governments - including those of the US and UK - have been snooping on their citizens, have rocked the world. But nobody seems to realize that this has already been happening fo.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780128034231
0128034238
012803405X
9780128034057