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Author Keenan, Thomas P., author

Title Technocreep : the surrender of privacy and the capitalization of intimacy / Thomas P. Keenan
Published Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (263 pages :) illustrations
Contents Preface; Introduction; Intelligence Creep; Camera Creep; Image Creep; Sensor Creep; Tracking Creep; Sensation Creep; Bio Creep; Body Creep; Time Creep; Government Creep; Deception Creep; Physible Creep; Child Creep; Pet Creep; Robot Creep; Creep Theory; Anti-Creep; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; References
Summary Technology is rapidly moving into our bodies," writes cyber expert Keenan, and this book gives a chilling look ahead into where that road may lead us on a one way trip to the total surrender of privacy and the commoditization of intimacy." Here is the definitive dissection of privacy-eroding and life-invading technologies, coming at you from governments, corporations, and the person next door.Take, for example, Girls Around Me": a Russian-made iPhone App that allowed anyone to scan the immediate vicinity for girls and women who checked in on Foursquare and had poorly secured Facebook prof
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Privacy, Right of.
Information technology -- Social aspects
Electronic surveillance.
Data protection.
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
Data protection.
Electronic surveillance.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Privacy, Right of.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1771641231 (electronic bk.)
9781771641234 (electronic bk.)