The Best Computer & Internet Law Books 2025

1. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, (Paperback)

Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. The powers that surveil us do more than simply store this information. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices we're offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of this is voluntary: we cooperate with corporate surveillance because it promises us convenience, and we submit to government surveillance because it promises us protection. The result is a mass surveillance society of our own making. But have we given up more than we've gained? In Data and Goliath, security expert Bruce Schneier offers another path, one that values both security and privacy. He brings his bestseller up-to-date with a new preface covering the latest developments, and then shows us exactly what we can do to reform government surveillance programs, shake up surveillance-based business models, and protect our individual privacy. You'll never look at your phone, your computer, your credit cards, or even your car in the same way again.

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, (Paperback) Author: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393352177 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2016-02-08 Page Count: 448

2. Pre-Owned Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (Paperback) 0870031945 9780870031946

As the Internet diffuses across the globe, many have come to believe that the technology poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. Grounded in the Internet's early libertarian culture and predicated on anecdotes pulled from diverse political climates, this conventional wisdom has informed the views of policymakers, business leaders, and media pundits alike. Yet few studies have sought to systematically analyze the exact ways in which Internet use may lay the basis for political change. In O pen Networks, Closed Regimes, the authors take a comprehensive look at how a broad range of societal and political actors in eight authoritarian and semi-authoritarian countries employ the Internet. Based on methodical assessment of evidence from these cases--China, Cuba, Singapore, Vietnam, Burma, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt--the study contends that the Internet is not necessarily a threat to authoritarian regimes.

Title: Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 0870031945 EAN: 9780870031946 Author: Kalathil, Shanthi; Boas, Taylor C. CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

3. Pre-Owned Domain Names: How to Choose & Protect a Great Name for Your Website (Paperback) 0873375696 9780873375696

With clever (and even not-so-clever) names for websites disappearing faster than you can say "Internet Start-Up," e-entrepreneurs need to know that their choice won't be whisked out from under their ISPs. This book explains in plain English how to choose, register and protect a domain name that works. Written both for those shepherding an existing business onto the Web and those launching an e-commerce start-up, it explains how to: * check on the availability of a domain name and register it * check the trademark status of a domain name * register a domain name electronically with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office * determine your rights as the owner of a domain name * proceed if a desirable domain name has already been snagged Bursting with up-to-date information, including the latest on federal anti-cybersquatting legislation, Domain Names includes a sample dispute notification letter and a sample domain-name sales agreement. Be king of your domain name with this user-friendly guide!

Title: Domain Names: How to Choose & Protect a Great Name for Your Website ISBN10: 0873375696 EAN: 9780873375696 Genre: LAW / Computer & Internet Author: Elias, Stephen CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

4. Netlaw: Your Rights in the Online World (Paperback - Used) 0078820774 9780078820779

This text has two aims: to identify the legal issues that face individuals, corporations, system administrators and online service providers as they move online; and to provide information critical to system administrators and system operators regarding the legal issues, risks and so on. It includes case studies of famous or important cases and issues, such as the Clipper encryption affair, and cases involving copyright on networks. Each chapter covers a different area of law or legal procedure as it relates to the online world, such as privacy, property rights and legal principles.

Title: Netlaw: Your Rights in the Online World ISBN10: 0078820774 EAN: 9780078820779 Genre: LAW / Computer & Internet Author: Rose, Lance CONDITION - GOOD - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.