Security and Privacy: Volume III (The Library of Essays on Law and Privacy)

2015 first edition Ashgate Publishing / Routledge (New York), 6 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches tall x 1 1/2 inches thick pale blue hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), xxvii, 511 pp. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, with very slight bumping to all four tips. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP23~ [4.0P] During the last decade in particular the levels of critical engagement with the challenges posed for privacy by the new technologies have been on the rise. Many scholars have continued to explore the big themes in a manner which typifies the complex interplay between privacy, identity, security and surveillance. This level of engagement is both welcome and timely, particularly in a climate of growing public mistrust of State surveillance activities and business predisposition to monetize information relating to the online activities of users. This volume is informed by the range of discussions currently conducted at scholarly and policy levels. The essays illustrate the value of viewing privacy concerns not only in terms of the means by which information is communicated but also in terms of the political processes that are inevitably engaged and the institutional, regulatory and cultural contexts within which meanings regarding identity and security are constituted. Contents: Introduction. Part I Identity, Security and Privacy in Context: Designing for trust; The digital persona and its application to data surveillance; Privacy, visibility, transparency, and exposure; Exploring identity and identification in cyberspace; A contextual approach to privacy online. Part II Surveillance, Security and Anonymity: Hacking the Panopticon: distributed online surveillance and resistance; The surveillant assemblage; 'Sousveillance': inverse surveillance in multimedia imaging; Surveillance as cultural practice; Surveillance and security: a dodgy relationship; Counter-surveillance as political intervention?; Resistance against cyber-surveillance within social movements and how surveillance adapts; Privacy, surveillance, and law; Squaring the circle of smart surveillance and privacy. Part III Privacy, Data Protection and Security: Data protection pursuant to the right to privacy in human rights treaties; Consumer culture and the commodification of policing and security; Information technology and dataveillance; Public assessment of new surveillance-oriented security technologies: beyond the trade-off between privacy and security; European protectionism in cloud computing: addressing concerns over the PATRIOT Act; Internet intermediaries, cloud computing and geospatial data: how competition and privacy converge in the mobile environment; Stolen identities. Part IV Smart Technologies, Social Control and Human Rights: The body as data? Biobank regulation via the ?back door? of data protection law; CCTV policy in the UK: Reconsidering the evidence base; Camera surveillance within the UK: Enhancing public safety or a social threat?; Privacy and data protection at the time of facial recognition: Towards a new right to digital identity?; The deciders: The future of privacy and free speech in the age of Facebook and Google; Affordance, conventions and design; eHealth: Roadmap to finding a successful cure for privacy issues; There's no app for that: Protecting users from mobile service providers and developers of location-based applications; The privacy bill of rights: What are the expectations?; Index.…