Personal data privacy and protection in a survillance era [electronic resource] : technologies and practices / Christina Akrivopoulou and Athanasios Psygkas, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.Description: electronic texts (328 p.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781609600853 (ebook)
- Data protection -- Law and legislation
- Electronic surveillance -- Law and legislation
- Privacy, Right of
- Records -- Access control
- Digital communications
- Anonymity and cyberspace
- Autonomy and intellectual property
- Data protection and privacy
- Media and the threats to the private life of the individual
- Privacy and medico-norms
- Privacy of public figures
- Privacy versus freedom of the press
- Secrecy and privacy in telecommunications
- Securing privacy, new technologies
- Surveillance in public spaces
- Technology and monitoring private life
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- Also available in print.

Includes bibliographical references.
1. Privacy and identity in a networked world / Bradley Tennis -- 2. The right to privacy and the right to identity in the age of ubiquitous computing / Norberto Gomes de Andrade -- 3. Hasta la vista privacy, or how technology terminated privacy / Konstantinos Stylianou -- 4. The electronic surveillance of public assemblies / Haralambos Anthopoulos -- 5. Telecommunications interception in Turkey / Melike K�eose -- 6. Surveillance in public spaces as a means of protecting security / Anna Tsiftsoglou -- 7. Genetic privacy / Christina Akrivopoulou -- 8. Autonomy, abortion and pain criteria / Hasan G�ung�or -- 9. Balancing the protection of genetic data and national security in the era of new technology / Cristina Contartese -- 10. Radio frequency identification in hospitals / Christopher Suarez -- 11. Privacy expectations in passive RFID tagging of motor vehicles / Diane Desierto -- 12. Ambient intelligence / Shara Monteleone -- 13. Privacy policy improvements to protect children privacy / Federica Casarosa -- 14. Digital copyright enforcement / Pedro Pina -- 15. The EC Data Retention Directive / N�ora Loideain -- 16. Data protection in EU law / Maria Tzanou -- 17. Cross-border transfer of personal data / Grigore-Octav Stan, Georgiana Ghitu -- 18. The implementation of the Data Retention Directive / Anna Pateraki.
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"This book spans a number of interdependent and emerging topics in the area of legal protection of privacy and technology and explores the new threats that cyberspace poses to the privacy of individuals, as well as the threats that surveillance technologies generate in public spaces and in digital communication"--Provided by publisher.
Also available in print.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed Jan. 13, 2011).