Series: Information Economy

ISBN 9788845315848

Year 2010 - pp. XVIII +302

23.00 Euro

A book designed as a tool for lawyers and up to date but also for journalists, economists, professors and students, bloggers, doctors, politicians, judges, investigators, internet providers, public officials, entrepreneurs, sociologists, designers, engineers, because the privacy and Its rules are now part of our lives every day. Cybersecurity, terrorism digital identity theft. But even the right to report, direct marketing, digital archiving of health data and access to public administration with a single click ... How much information about us we give in at all times, even against our will?

Not just the cameras placed at the corners of the streets to "deter" crime and violence, or because of wiretaps that have reduced Italy (and the world) in a Big Brother generalized.

Think about where we shop, we pass the checks at the airport, do a search on line ... they are administered daily or complex actions - whose purpose is also to improve our lives - they have a strong impact on information relating to our person: credit card, the points card at the supermarket, the medical report or a simple phone connected to a network are factors that reveal our most intimate data.

We want to share this information? We want to "deliver" to third parties because they provide better products and services? And we are sure that will be used properly and not for criminal purposes?

Many are the risks and opportunities for citizens' privacy - and businesses - which come from new digital technologies in the public sector as in private. This book, promoted and implemented within one of the most important - and unbiased - centers of opinion on the subject, the Italian Institute for Privacy, offers a clear view of our current and future-citizens and rules regulate the phenomenon and protect us (or rather do not).

Volume informative and visionary, a telescope for anyone who wants to explore the boundaries of the right remote youngest ever. The Italian Institute for Privacy (IIP) is a research center devoted to issues of security and safety of personal data in the global ICT companies, which involves comparing many of the best Italian specialists of the right of privacy, public and business private. The IIP is founding partner of the European Privacy Association.