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"Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in...
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"The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating...
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The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically understand...
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Es un gran honor presentar a la comunidad académica el presente libro, fruto de la dialéctica entre destacados profesores de pregrado y posgrado de la Universidad de Medellín, que reúne diferentes capítulos sobre temas actuales de derecho privado, abordados con elevado rigor crítico, analítico y propositivo.
Este libro, por lo tanto, representa un diálogo simbólico entre los profesores Luis María Mesa, Alonso Rico Puerta, Gloria Cuervo,...
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Get the Summary of Ryan J. Reilly's Sedition Hunters in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Sedition Hunters" by Ryan J. Reilly delves into the events leading up to and following the January 6 Capitol riot, focusing on the influence of Donald Trump's rhetoric on his supporters and the challenges faced by law enforcement in handling domestic terrorism. The book examines the planning and execution of violent acts by...
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"Is Privacy Dead? The Future of Privacy in the Digital Age" is a book about the loss of privacy in the digital age and what the future of privacy might be Futurist David Houle suggests that it is time for society to have a discussion about what it means to live in a world of decreasing privacy and what new moral and ethical issues might be. This book is about the future of privacy. Houle offers up suggestions for how we might live in a world of no...
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In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a world has evolved where each person has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success are reliant upon instantaneous evaluations of how well each member conforms to the rigid social system. Young Fift is an only child of the Staid gender, struggling to maintain zir position in the system while developing a friendship with the acclaimed bioengineer Shria--a controversial...
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The Ultimate GDPR Practitioner Guide provides those tasked with implementing Data Protection processes, useful information on how to achieve compliance with GDPR. The book is crammed with advice, guidance and templates and also includes a copy of the full regulation text and the supporting recitals. Topics include:
• The Data Protection Officer
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• Data Protection / Privacy Notices
• Data Protection Impact Assessments...
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A former Secretary of Homeland Security examines our outdated laws regarding the protection of personal information, and the pressing need for change.
Nothing undermines our freedom more than losing control of information about ourselves. And yet, as daily events underscore, we are ever more vulnerable to cyber-attack.
In this bracing book, Michael Chertoff makes clear that our laws and policies surrounding the protection of personal information,...
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"Tragedy strikes during a cross-country flight when sudden turbulence causes the jet to come apart in midair. The odds of anyone surviving are nearly impossible. Charlie Radford, a young National Transportation Safety Board investigator, is part of the team sent to determine what caused the crash. When he hears a rumor of a survivor, he assumes it is a hoax. As word of this "miracle" reaches the media and Congress, Radford is forced to track down...
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What is data privacy? Why is it important? How much is your data worth? What exactly is data? Why is data privacy constantly in the news? The world has changed into a data-centric environment. It is important to learn how you can fortify your data privacy.
Fortify Your Data Privacy takes a deep dive into the world of data privacy, and how data privacy pertains to you and your business as we engage with big tech giants Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
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Abogados de Ficción es un libro en el que el derecho y la literatura se encuentran. Diversos autores se han reunido en esta oportunidad para analizar las diversas formas en que el derecho es parte de la literatura o en que la literatura sirve para comprender el derecho. Con un interés académico y pedagógico en mente, este libro recoge diálogos posibles entre el derecho internacional, el derecho privado, el derecho constitucional, la teoría del...
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As an eligible bachelor, man-about-town, and mover in the highest social echelons, Stone Barrington has always been the subject of interest and gossip. But when he's unwittingly thrust into the limelight, he finds himself scrambling to take cover. Before too long, Stone's fending off pesky nuisances left and right, and making personal arrangements so surreptitiously it would take a covert operative to unearth them. Unfortunately, Stone soon discovers...
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"April Falcon Doss, a cybersecurity and privacy expert with experience working for the NSA and the US government, explores the most common types of data being collected about individuals today and delve into how it is being used-sometimes against us-by the private sector, the government, and even our employers and schools"--
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"Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G. Wodehouse in Crosstalk--a genre-bending novel that pushes social media, smartphone technology, and twenty-four-hour availability to hilarious and chilling extremes as one young woman abruptly finds herself with way more connectivity than she ever desired. In the not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase...
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Colombia tiene la reputación de ser uno de los países con menor participación electoral en América Latina, lo que en varias oportunidades de la historia reciente del país ha suscitado debates sobre volver obligatorio el voto.
En general, ello se fundamenta en una valoración positiva de la participación ciudadana y su importancia para la democracia; sin embargo, pocas veces esto se ha apoyado en un diagnóstico riguroso del problema de la abstención.
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Desde 1997, cuando fuera aprobada la Ley de desarrollo territorial, el país ha acumulado muchas experiencias sobre las reglas que rigen el espacio urbano, sus finalidades y posibilidades. Hoy, el derecho urbano es una realidad, tal como lo muestra una década de formación de especialistas en la Universidad del Rosario y los múltiples debates judiciales en torno a la problemática urbana y su marco regulatorio.
A veinte años del nuevo marco jurídico...
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In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. For several hours the besieged leader of the world's most famous insurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of the world's largest information empire locked horns. The two men debated the political problems faced...