Protect Your Privacy: How to Protect Your Identity as well as Your Financial, Personal, and Computer Records in an Age of Constant Surveillance (Outwitting) [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Duncan Long (Author)

Book Description

Series: Outwitting | Publication Date: January 1, 2007

Everything you need to know about how to protect your computer security, financial privacy, telephone privacy, identification, freedom of movement, and more!

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From the Back Cover

Privacy is a basic principle of democracy, but these days it seems privacy is almost obsolete. Armies of government snoops, corporate data miners, identity thieves, private investigators, and even nosy neighbors can easily dig up as much information as possible on you, your loved ones, and everyone else. They can find out exactly what you’ve said on the phone, what you’ve e-mailed, the websites you’ve visited, your financial details, what you’ve paid in taxes—or what you’ve paid for anything at all!—and where you’ve driven, flown, or shopped. Crooks and scam artists can access your Social Security information, transfer money out of your bank accounts, issue themselves credit cards in your name, and even steal your identity.

And that’s not all! We’re constantly under surveillance with thermal imaging, millivision cameras, face-recognition technology, scanners, and satellite technology.

Is there any hope of reclaiming our privacy and saving our identities?

Yes! Protect Your Privacy shows you how to plug the leaks, foil investigators, protect your financial records, and more. Learn how to safeguard yourself in virtually every situation, whether you’re surfing the Internet, chatting on the phone, or even dealing with overzealous government agents empowered by the Patriot Act. Discover how to stop snoops and scam artists before they have a chance to compromise your privacy.

 

About the Author

Duncan Long is an internationally recognized author on the subject of survival, weapons, and warfare.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1 edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599210207
• ASIN: B001QCX7HY
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Duncan Long (http://DuncanLong.com/) is a freelance writer/illustrator who has authored 13 novels including Anti-Grav Unlimited (Avon Books), the Spider Worlds triology (HarperCollins), and the Night Stalkers series (Harper Collins). He's also written 60-some technical books and how-to manuals (with Paladin Press, Delta Press, Lyons Press/Globe Pequot, and others). Additionally, he's ghostwritten over a dozen titles for TV, radio, and stage celebrities.

Some of Long's technical manuals can be found in the private libraries of the CIA, US Marines, FEMA, the FBI's FTU (Firearms Training Unit), and other US agencies. Excerpts from his books and technical drawings have even appeared in US Congressional hearings.

As an illustrator Long has created cover and interior illustrations for HarperCollins, PS Publishing (UK), Byron Preiss/ibooks, Pocket Books, Fort Ross, American Media, Delirium Books, Ballistic Media, Mermaid Books, Swimming Kangaroo Books, and others. His artwork also appears in national magazines (including the Sun and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine), and at Web sites and on CD covers.

Long's illustrations are noted for their often whimsical, dreamlike quality. Talk-show host Victor Thorn named Long one of the three "best graphic artists in the entire world." And the reviewer at 3D Millennium (M3 Corp., Inc.) wrote about Long's collected works, "To call him a prolific artist would be understatement, at best. Get yourself a snack and settle back while Duncan takes you on a wild ride through worlds only he has dreamt of."

You can find Long's graphic artwork and articles online at his site: http://DuncanLong.com/

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lacking, October 26, 2009

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M M Frank "frequent reader" (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Protect Your Privacy: How to Protect Your Identity as well as Your Financial, Personal, and Computer Records in an Age of Constant Surveillance (Outwitting) (Paperback)

The cover and foreword of this book seemed promising, but the bulk of the text failed to deliver. The book discusses major ways to protect one's privacy, from the home to the internet to the telephone. Unfortunately, however, often the advice is "don't write any email you wouldn't want posted publicly" or "when using the phone, act as though you are shouting onto a busy street with a megaphone." In short, the single best way to protect your privacy is never to communicate in the first place. Great, but not exactly helpful.

The author also discusses RFID tags at length; how they might be used to track your purchases, your physical whereabouts and movements, and how nefarious persons might locate expensive property on your person or within your home. He even explains how one might construct a Faraday Cage to keep such tags from being read by passers-by. The problem though is that Long never describes how to identify, remove, or destroy RFID tags on/within items (if this is even possible, which I know in some cases it is). Instead, the best solution is to keep such items in a foil-lined box (insert joke here).

By the final chapter of the book, it seems the author's purpose is simply to inform the reader that data miners and others hoping to compromise one's privacy are everywhere and the best course of action is simply not to reveal any information in the first place. A bit of a chilling read, but if you're looking for a how-to guide, there are better options.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ENJOYABLE, October 7, 2009

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Live Safe "Safety" (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Protect Your Privacy: How to Protect Your Identity as well as Your Financial, Personal, and Computer Records in an Age of Constant Surveillance (Outwitting) (Paperback)

BOOK WAS ENJOYABLE AND OFFERED SOME GOOD INSIGHT. SOME OF THE MATERIAL WAS BASIC AND ALREADY KNOWN. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO PERSONS WHO WANT TO LEARN MORE OR REVIEW AND UPDATE WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW. I LIKED IT.