Foreword v
Senator Evan Bayh

Preface: The Monkey House ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction: How and Why Our Privacy Is at Risk xix

Privacy Invasions Hurt

1. The Seven Sins Against Privacy 3

2. Collateral Damage: The Harm to Society 41

Why Technology Is Key

3. Technology Affects Privacy: How and Why 57

4. New Tech, New Crimes: Fresh Wounds 71

Privacy in Context

5. Privacy and the Law: A Right Ahead or Left Behind? 93

6. Privacy and Identity: The Cult of Me 121

7. Privacy and Culture in a Technological World: Shoji Screens 137

The Technology

8. Voyeurism: Surveillance Technology 149

9. Stalking: Networks, Tags, and Locators 169

The Watchers

10. Marketing Invasions: Garbos and Greed 187

11. Government Invasions for Security: Mugwumps and Momists 211

What Can Be Done?

12. Fighting Back: Gandhis, Curmudgeons, and Vigilantes 239

13. The Panopticon: See the Bars, Rattle the Cage 265

About the Author

DAVID H. HOLTZMAN has led a rich and distinctive life. In addition to raising five kids on his own, he has been a cryptographic analyst and submariner for the Navy, an intelligence analyst at the Defense Special Missile and Astronautics Center, a chief scientist at IBM, and a senior technology analyst for Booz|Allen|Hamilton. Holtzman has been a founding CEO and chairman of a venture-backed start-up company, a security consultant for several organizations and a presidential campaign, a corporate marketing consultant, an information-based software systems designer, and a high-tech adviser in Silicon Valley. During the late 1990s, as CTO of Network Solutions, he ran the Internet domain-name system and oversaw the growth of the commercial Internet from five hundred thousand to over twenty million domain names.

Today, Holtzman is applying the knowledge he has gained from his unique experience by writing and consulting, and by running the popular blog he created, www.GlobalPOV.com, where he investigates and reports on the critical ways technology and society interact.

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