Overview
- A single, comprehensive text suitable for teaching courses on privacy
- Interdisciplinary in scope, touching on such areas as cloud computing, social networking, law, healthcare, smart grids, and big data
- Examines in detail cutting-edge technologies, discusses current challenges, and presents illuminating perspectives on privacy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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“International contributors discuss the specific issues, problems, and challenges associated with privacy risks and propose solutions. Solution approaches include technologies, laws, and behavioral aspects. A number of chapters explore trade-offs between utility, usefulness, and privacy risks. … This interesting, comprehensive work is part of Springer’s ‘Computer Communications and Networks’ series. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries.” (H. Levkowitz, Choice, Vol. 53 (10), June, 2016)
“This book explores the privacy challenges associated with a wide variety of modern technical innovations … . I found this book interesting to read. … This book is intended as a reference for researchers and engineers working or interested in privacy. … would be valuable not only for those directly working in privacy, but also as a reference for those researching or innovating in any of the technologies covered, to help them avoid accidentally contributing to the erosion of privacy.” (Andrew Kalafut, Computing Reviews, March, 2016)
“The book provides in-depth details of privacy issues and solutions in the digital domain. … This book can be utilized as a reference for graduate students and researchers working in the domain of privacy and security. It can also be used for graduate courses that either focus entirely or in part on privacy. Practitioners who are working to develop specific applications … may also find the book useful to make themselves aware of privacy-aware solutions.” (Jawwad Shamsi, Computing Reviews, March, 2016)
“Privacy is a topic of concern for the entire domain of digital science. ... The book is a one-stop resource for privacy practitioners, security researchers and academics teaching privacy courses at both the undergraduate as well as the graduate levels. It would also serve as an excellent reference for information security experts. … Overall, an excellent contribution to the privacy discipline, with strong potential as a completeknowledge source.” (Amazon.com, November, 2015)
“It is extremely difficult for a book to attempt be scientific and appeal at the same time to a broad audience but this book has achieved exactly this goal! … The book is nicely edited and each chapter has exemplary clarity and in-depth content. The book honors its title but giving justice to the topics discussed and position the readers to not only think critically about privacy but to identify what are the burning issues in privacy today.” (Amazon.com, November, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Sherali Zeadally is an Associate Professor in the College of Communication and Information at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. His other publications include the Springer titles Next-Generation Wireless Technologies and Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century.
Dr. Mohamad Badra is an Assistant Professor in the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Privacy in a Digital, Networked World
Book Subtitle: Technologies, Implications and Solutions
Editors: Sherali Zeadally, Mohamad Badra
Series Title: Computer Communications and Networks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08470-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08469-5Published: 23 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35631-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08470-1Published: 13 October 2015
Series ISSN: 1617-7975
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8433
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 418
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Information Storage and Retrieval, Data Storage Representation, Management of Computing and Information Systems