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Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of it

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Supreme Court Justice Brandeis called the right to be let alone "the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." In today's computer age, the right to privacy has taken on even greater implicaations. For instance, why does an employer need to know your father's income, your mother's maiden name, or your hobbies - especially before you've been hired? These are all questions from job applications. Insurance companies, government agencies, banks, schools, credit bureaus, and doctors have gathered information about you that may be wrong, overly detailed, or handed out casually to people who have no business seeing it.

Robert Ellis Smith. publisher of Privacy Journal, alerts the reader to four aspects of privacy - informational, technological, physical, and psychological. In this brilliant book he guides the consumer through the laws and skills needed to protect what is trurly yours alone - privacy. -- from book's back cover