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Information Insecurity: privacy under siege

The focus of this book is to investigate Internet privacy and the spying of companies and governments against their own employees and citizens.  There is an explanation of “cookies” and how they facilitate a third party viewing an internet account.  The legitimacy of surveillance for purposes of protection and the legal “greater good” of society is contrasted with the expectation of  individual’s constitutional rights of  privacy. A person may unknowingly allow a company access to private information by clicking user agreements. Digital privacy is at risk the world over and stricter controls are needed on data tracking. This book offers a brief, informative investigations of a growing problem.