Privacy on the Line
Subtitle: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780262514002
Subjects: Wiretapping; Data encryption (computer science); Electronic surveillance, united states; Telecommunication policy, united states; Privacy, right of
Description: "In Privacy on the Line, Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau strip away the hype surrounding the policy debate over privacy to examine the national-security, law-enforcement, commercial, and civil-liberties issues. They discuss the social function of privacy, how it underlies a democratic society, and what happens when it is lost. This updated and expanded edition revises their original - and prescient - discussions of policy and technology in light of recent controversies over NSA spying and other government threats to communications privacy."--BOOK JACKET."