Privacy in the modern age : the search for solutions / edited by Marc Rotenberg, Julia Horwitz, and Jeramie Scott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epic: The first twenty years / Marc Rotenberg -- Privacy and the imperative of open government / Steven Aftergood -- What goes around comes around / Ross Anderson -- New models of privacy for the university / Christine L. Borgman, coauthored with Kent Wada and James F. Davis -- Robot-sized gaps in surveillance law / Ryan Calo -- Protecting sexual privacy in the information age / Danielle Citron -- Privacy opportunities and challenges with Europe's new data protection regime / Simon Davies -- Pseudonyms by another name: identity management in a time of surveillance / A. Michael Froomkin -- Taking the long way home: the human right of privacy / Deborah Hurley -- Accountability unchained: bulk data retention, preemptive surveillance, and transatlantic data protection / Kristina Irion -- The surveillance society and transparent you / Jeff Jonas -- Anonymity and reason / Harry Lewis -- Cryptography is the future / Anna Lysyanskaya -- Coming to terms and avoiding information techno-fallacies / Gary T. Marx -- When self-help helps: user adoption of privacy technologies / Aleecia M. McDonald -- Protecting data privacy in education / Dr. Pablo G. Molina -- How might system and network security interact with privacy? / Peter G. Neumann -- "Respect for context": fulfilling the promise of the White House report / Helen Nissenbaum -- Privacy, autonomy, and internet platforms / Frank Pasquale -- The future of health privacy / Dr. Deborah Peel, MD -- Anonymity and free speech: can ICANN implement anonymous domain name registration? / Stephanie E. Perrin -- Protecting privacy through copyright law? / Pamela Samuelson -- Fear and convenience / Bruce Schneier -- Envisioning privacy in the world of big data / Christopher Wolf -- Epilogue: The Madrid privacy declaration "Global privacy standards for a global world."

The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records are available for sale to strangers; our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity; and small robots patrol our schoolyards and drones may soon fill our skies. The contributors to this anthology don't simply describe these problems or warn about the loss of privacy-they propose solutions. They look closely at business practices, public policy, and technology design, and ask, "Should this continue? Is there a better approach?" They take seriously the dictum of Thomas Edison: "What one creates with his hand, he should control with his head." It's a new approach to the privacy debate, one that assumes privacy is worth protecting, that there are solutions to be found, and that the future is not yet known. This volume is a reference for policy makers and researchers, journalists and scholars, and others looking for answers to one of the biggest challenges of our modern day.