Waiving Our Rights - by Orlan Lee (Hardcover)

About the Book

The purpose of Waiving Our Rights: The Personal Data Collection Complex and its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties is to alert Americans to the erosion of our fundamental rights, and what to do about that. This book is not just about the right to privacy anymore.

Book Synopsis

The purpose of Waiving Our Rights: The Personal Data Collection Complex and its Threat to Privacy and Civil Liberties is to alert Americans to the erosion of our fundamental rights, and what to do about that. This book is not just about the right to privacy anymore.

Review Quotes

Lee emphasizes the importance of waivers being both voluntary and informed.... There is much interesting descriptive material in the book, and the author is clearly justifiably disturbed by the practices of CRAs.

This book by Orlan Lee is a fine piece of research work on personal data collection practices in the USA. It presents a strong statement for stricter data protection rules in the USA where the personal data gathering industry has gone wild and no proper safeguards exist.

Examines cases and the legality of privacy of government-held information vs. the continual 'waiving of rights' associated with third parties that collect information and sidestep legal responsibility.

About the Author

Orlan Lee is professor in the School of Management of the New York Institute of Technology, and life member of Clare Hall in the University of Cambridge.