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Database Nation
Author | : Simson Garfinkel |
Publsiher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2000-12-04 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0596550642 |
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Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights--still use Orwell's "Big Brother" language to discuss privacy issues. But the reality is that the age of a monolithic Big Brother is over. And yet the threats are perhaps even more likely to destroy the rights we've assumed were ours.Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century shows how, in these early years of the 21st century, advances in technology endanger our privacy in ways never before imagined. Direct marketers and retailers track our every purchase; surveillance cameras observe our movements; mobile phones will soon report our location to those who want to track us; government eavesdroppers listen in on private communications; misused medical records turn our bodies and our histories against us; and linked databases assemble detailed consumer profiles used to predict and influence our behavior. Privacy--the most basic of our civil rights--is in grave peril.Simson Garfinkel--journalist, entrepreneur, and international authority on computer security--has devoted his career to testing new technologies and warning about their implications. This newly revised update of the popular hardcover edition of Database Nation is his compelling account of how invasive technologies will affect our lives in the coming years. It's a timely, far-reaching, entertaining, and thought-provoking look at the serious threats to privacy facing us today. The book poses a disturbing question: how can we protect our basic rights to privacy, identity, and autonomy when technology is making invasion and control easier than ever before?Garfinkel's captivating blend of journalism, storytelling, and futurism is a call to arms. It will frighten, entertain, and ultimately convince us that we must take action now to protect our privacy and identity before it's too late.
Status of the Nation s Highways Bridges and Transit Conditions and Performance
Author | : Barry Leonard |
Publsiher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2010-08 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9781437931211 |
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This Conditions and Performance (C&P) report is intended to provide decision makers with an objective appraisal of the physical conditions, operational performances, and financing mechanisms of highways, bridges, and transit systems based both on the current state of these systems and on the projected future state of these systems under a set of alternative future investment scenarios. This report offers a comprehensive, data-driven background to support the development and evaluation of legislative, program, and budget options at all levels of government. This report consolidates conditions, performance, and financial data provided by States, local governments, and mass transit operators to provide a national-level summary. Illus.
Expanding Access to Research Data
Author | : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Data Access for Research Purposes |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2005-12-11 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780309100120 |
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Policy makers need information about the nationâ€"ranging from trends in the overall economy down to the use by individuals of Medicareâ€"in order to evaluate existing programs and to develop new ones. This information often comes from research based on data about individual people, households, and businesses and other organizations, collected by statistical agencies. The benefit of increasing data accessibility to researchers and analysts is better informed public policy. To realize this benefit, a variety of modes for data accessâ€" including restricted access to confidential data and unrestricted access to appropriately altered public-use dataâ€"must be used. The risk of expanded access to potentially sensitive data is the increased probability of breaching the confidentiality of the data and, in turn, eroding public confidence in the data collection enterprise. Indeed, the statistical system of the United States ultimately depends on the willingness of the public to provide the information on which research data are based. Expanding Access to Research Data issues guidance on how to more fully exploit these tradeoffs. The panel's recommendations focus on needs highlighted by legal, social, and technological changes that have occurred during the last decade.
Workplace Literacy and the Nation s Unemployed Workers
Author | : Mamoru Ishikawa |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literacy |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924069093460 |
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Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Water |
ISBN | : PSU:000068689193 |
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Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation s Information Infrastructure
Author | : National Research Council,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee to Study High Performance Computing and Communications: Status of a Major Initiative |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1995-03-27 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780309052771 |
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Maintaining the United States' strong lead in information technology will require continued federal support of research in this area, most of which is currently funded under the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative (HPCCI). The Initiative has already accomplished a great deal and should be continued. This book provides 13 major recommendations for refining both HPCCI and support of information technology research in general. It also provides a good overview of the development of HPCC technologies.
Protecting the Nation s Groundwater
Author | : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of the Administrator |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Groundwater |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112018915501 |
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2015 Status of the Nation s Highways Bridges and Transit Conditions and Performance Report to Congress
Author | : Federal Highway Administration (U S ),Federal Transit Administration (U S ) |
Publsiher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2017-04 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 016093706X |
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This publication is intended to provide decision makers with an objective appraisal of the physical conditions, operational performance, and financing mechanisms of highways, bridges, and transit systems based on both their current state and their projected future state under a set of alternative future investment scenarios.