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Computer Privacy Annoyances

By Dan Tynan
First Edition July 2005
Pages: 190
Series: Annoyances
ISBN 10: 0-596-00775-2 | ISBN 13: 9780596007751

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From the moment you're born, you enter the data stream-from birth certificates to medical records to what you bought on Amazon last week. As your dossier grows, so do the threats, from identity thieves to government snoops to companies who want to sell you something. Computer Privacy Annoyances shows you how to regain control of your life. You'll learn how to keep private information private, stop nosy bosses, get off that incredibly annoying mailing list, and more. Unless you know what data is available about you and how to protect it, you're a sitting duck. Computer Privacy Annoyances is your guide to a safer, saner, and more private life. Written by privacy pro Dan Tynan, and based on interviews with privacy experts from all over the globe, Computer Privacy Annoyances serves up real-world advice in bite-sized portions that will help you stop the snoops in their tracks. The book even addresses non-computing threats, from telemarketer-cum-stalkers, thieves at your mailbox, nosy folks in your HR department, cell phone eavesdroppers, and more. The key areas covered include:

Privacy at Home
Privacy on the Net
Privacy at Work
Privacy in Public
Privacy and Uncle Sam
Privacy in the Future

Daniel Tynan has written about Internet privacy and security for nearly a decade. His work has appeared in more than 40 national publications. As executive editor at PC World, Tynan edited a special issue on Internet Privacy that won a Grand Neal Award and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. He has won more than a dozen other honors, including nine Neals, four Maggies, and two Computer Press Association Awards.

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First Edition: July 2005
Series: Annoyances
ISBN: 0-596-00775-2
Pages: 190

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"This book is an eye-opener on privacy invasion and how it can harm you in countless ways...Find out what is going on and what you can do to protect yourself not only on the Internet, but in other aspects of your life as well."
-- Ed Laskowski, The Vista PC Journal

"Dan Tynan's Computer Privacy Annoyances gets it right: the book provides
excellent advice on how to protect privacy without turning the reader
into a paranoid. The book has one of the best "top ten" steps to
protect privacy I've read. He covers privacy at home, work, and on the
Internets."

Chris Jay Hoofnagle / EPIC ALERT

"Privacy? Good luck! Even the slightest misstep on line (or anywhere else, for that matter) can open you up to privacy intrusions that you may not know about. Dan Tynan does a really good job in outlining these areas in Computer Privacy Annoyances. This is pretty much required reading for living in our heavily computerized society.

Even if this book keeps you from making just one mistake that would lead to identity theft, then it's more than paid for itself. A recommended read..."

Thomas Duff
Amazon

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