About the Book: Privacy
We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work,
correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane
activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening
to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding that the
data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There
is an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke, and, concrete rules about our
privacy that we can point to if we are pressed. Nonetheless, too often we are
uneasily reminded that our