Archive for the 'Books' Category
Google and the Mission to Map Meaning and Make Money
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005(via Google Blogoscoped)Google and the Mission to Map Meaning and Make Money is the title of a new book on Google by Bart Milner.
This book is a brief history of Cyberspace and Google’s fundamental contribution - a new search method that gives almost immediate access to the contents of billions of web pages.
It covers the […]
No Place to Hide
Sunday, January 30th, 2005(Via Privacy Digest) The New York Times reviews Robert O’Harrow’s new book No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society:
…Mr. O’Harrow provides in these pages an authoritative and vivid account of the emergence of a “security-industrial complex” and the far-reaching consequences for ordinary Americans, who must cope not only with […]
The Digital Person
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005I just finished Daniel Solove’s The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age. Here are excerpts from my review of the book for the academic journal Ethics & Information Technology.
…Solove, an associate law professor at George Washington University Law School, argues that our common conceptualization of the privacy problem as “Big Brother” […]




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