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- catalog abstract "Privacy for Sale is a startling expose and analysis of the demise of privacy in the age of the computer. The proliferation of computerized files containing the intimate details of our private lives--our financial data, medical history, employment records, and on and on--means that practically everything there is to know about any of us is available. Whether it's our driving records, our travel habits, the medications we take, or whom we call on the telephone, it's all on. File somewhere. As is what we buy and borrow every time we use a credit card. Privacy for Sale takes readers inside the information industry and introduces us to the people who profit from the data explosion: the Big Three credit bureaus, the superbureaus (wholesalers of the credit industry), the direct marketers, and the information underground, where anything and everything is available for the right price. No one's privacy is safe, not even that of celebrities. (Mr. Rothfeder reveals how easily he was able to obtain personal data about Vice President Dan Quayle and how, with a little more difficulty, he was able to tap information about Dan Rather.). The government offers us little protection: Some of our most important privacy laws are twenty years old and predate the desktop computer revolution. Worse yet, the government itself is infected by data mania and is creating new computer systems monthly to track virtually every aspect. Of our lives. This revealing--and alarming--book explains what we must do, as individuals and as a nation, to begin to regain control of our private lives.".
- catalog contributor b3838664.
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "File somewhere. As is what we buy and borrow every time we use a credit card. Privacy for Sale takes readers inside the information industry and introduces us to the people who profit from the data explosion: the Big Three credit bureaus, the superbureaus (wholesalers of the credit industry), the direct marketers, and the information underground, where anything and everything is available for the right price. No one's privacy is safe, not even that of celebrities. (Mr.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-217) and index.".
- catalog description "Of our lives. This revealing--and alarming--book explains what we must do, as individuals and as a nation, to begin to regain control of our private lives.".
- catalog description "Privacy for Sale is a startling expose and analysis of the demise of privacy in the age of the computer. The proliferation of computerized files containing the intimate details of our private lives--our financial data, medical history, employment records, and on and on--means that practically everything there is to know about any of us is available. Whether it's our driving records, our travel habits, the medications we take, or whom we call on the telephone, it's all on.".
- catalog description "Rothfeder reveals how easily he was able to obtain personal data about Vice President Dan Quayle and how, with a little more difficulty, he was able to tap information about Dan Rather.). The government offers us little protection: Some of our most important privacy laws are twenty years old and predate the desktop computer revolution. Worse yet, the government itself is infected by data mania and is creating new computer systems monthly to track virtually every aspect.".
- catalog extent "224 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Privacy for sale.".
- catalog identifier "067173492X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Privacy for sale.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Simon & Schuster,".
- catalog relation "Privacy for sale.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "323.44/83/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Banks and banking Records and correspondence Access control United States.".
- catalog subject "Banks and banking United States Records and correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Computer security United States.".
- catalog subject "Confidential communications United States Third parties.".
- catalog subject "Credit bureaus Records and correspondence Access control United States.".
- catalog subject "HG3751.7 .R68 1992".
- catalog subject "Privacy, Right of United States.".
- catalog title "Privacy for sale : how computerization has made everyone's private life an open secret / Jeffrey Rothfeder.".
- catalog type "text".