Title: Privacy on the line
First published: 1998
Description: Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as the Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us still take our privacy for granted, even as we become more reliant than ever on telephones, computer networks, and electronic transactions of all kinds. So many of our relationships now use telecommunication as the primary mode of communication that the security of these transactions has become a source of wide public concern and debate.

Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau argue that if we are to retain the privacy that characterized face-to-face relationships in the past, we must build the means of protecting that privacy into our communication systems.

Diffie and Landau examine the national-security, law-enforcement, commercial, and civil-liberties issues. They discuss privacy's social function, how it underlies a democratic society, and what happens when it is lost. They also explore how intelligence and law-enforcement organizations work, how they intercept communications, and how they use what they intercept.
Subjects: Law and legislation, Right of Privacy, Wiretapping, Data encryption (Computer science), Telecommunication, Electronic surveillance, Electronic intelligence, Political aspects of Telecommunication, Political aspects of Electronic surveillance, Recht op privacy, Afluisteren, Geheimschrift, Data security & data encryption, Media, information & communication industries, Privacy & data protection, Political Science, Politics / Current Events, Politics/International Relations, Communications, Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights, Telecommunications, Political Science / Political Freedom & Security / General, Media Studies, Political Freedom & Security - General, Social Aspects, United States, Land rights, Telephone technology, Privacy, right of, United states, politics and government, Electronic surveillance, united states, Telecommunication policy, united states, Écoute électronique, Chiffrement (Informatique), Droit, Droit à la vie privée, LAW, Constitutional, Public, Droit de la protection des données, Protection de la vie privée, Télécommunications, Cryptage, Codage, Cryptografie, Chiffrierung, Lauschangriff, Recht, Criminal Law & Procedure - U.S., Law - U.S., Law, Politics & Government, Political freedom & security, Political aspects
Places: United States, Etats-Unis d'Amérique, USA