The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age | 
| Author: Daniel Solove
Publisher: NYU Press
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Pages: 283
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0814740375
Dewey Decimal Number: 342
EAN: 9780814740378
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Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databases—which Daniel J. Solove calls "digital dossiers"—has thus far gone largely unchecked. In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and using personal data, Solove explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy. The Digital Person sets forth a new understanding of what privacy is, one that is appropriate for the new challenges of the Information Age. Solove recommends how the law can be reformed to simultaneously protect our privacy and allow us to enjoy the benefits of our increasingly digital world. The first volume in the series EX MACHINA: LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
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 Informative but not pleasureable reading June 28, 2008
Very informative, extensively researched, well cited... not fun to read. I would describe it as text book reading. Solove spends pages and pages citing examples of each topic. If you're interested in databases and the privacy implications of data collection this book will tell you everything you want to know and more... but if you want a pleasurable read I would NOT suggest this book.
 good, but a bit paranoid and with funky language February 10, 2008
This book brings up some great points about privacy in an increasingly digital age, but solove latches onto the term "dossier" which is accurate but rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe because it suggests that companies are compiling information on inviduals for reasons duplicitous, when really the motivation is to make money ... often less emotional.
Also, Solove is extremely paranoid about "databases". True, databases make information storage and retrieval efficient and the proliferation of affordable storage means companies can collect more and more, thus making more and more dollars and contributing to the problem.
The issue here really is the companies that hold this data ... and the fact that individuals have no real way to audit the information they hold. That would be a solution worth pursuing. Databases are here to stay, like them or not.
The Digital Person May 2, 2007
I think this book address the rising problem of privacy in the Information Age very well. Discussing the history of databases and the privacy laws are helpful, but I think the author goes too much into that. I was hoping the book would discuss more about how privacy problems could be in the future and how to deal with them effectively.
taken from Journal of Law, Economics & Policy Volume 1, Number 2 (Winter 2005) August 17, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"The knowledge which can be gained from the study of this text is found in the placement that Solove's topic has within the broader debate surrounding the role of knowledge in society. Solove's points chime in right around the time we recognize that computers have great potential for advancing the spread and use of productive information. Computers provide tools capable of tapping into dispersed knowledge; but, we must simultaneously recognize that they are not miracle cures to be implemented from central positions of authority. The knowledge which they coordinate is valuable only in so far that it is dispersed and subjective. The hazardous notions of knowledge, in the Hayekian sense, would be those which claim to be more complete and universally applicable than they actually are. When based upon such false notions, actions stand to be erroneous, misinformed, and the host to unintended consequences."
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 Distortion of John E. Holts Public Record July 16, 2006
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
The information in this book about John E. Holt, former GSA Official is false
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