Privacy and security in the digital age
By: Anne Cunningham, editor
Edition: First edition.
Series: Current controversies
Published: 2017
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781534500211; 9781534500327
Subjects: Right of Privacy; Electronic surveillance; Right of privacy
Description: The digital age has enhanced our lives in such profound ways that its difficult to imagine how we ever coped without computers, the internet, and smartphone cameras. But along with the obvious improvements that technology offers come threats to our personal freedoms. Readers of this enlightening anthology will be faced with complicated dilemmas from a variety of informed viewpoints: Does the government have the right to monitor its citizens? Should consumers have expectations of privacy? Does video surveillance make us safer in our communities? Is security more important than liberty?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is security more inportant than liberty?; title: Does the government have the right to monitor its citizens?; title: Should consumers have expectatons of privacy?; title: Does video surveillance make us safer?