Explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy. This book sets forth a different understanding of what privacy is. It recommends how the law can be reformed to simultaneously protect our privacy and allow us to enjoy the benefits of our digital world.

"Anyone concerned with preserving privacy against technology's growing intrusiveness will find this book enlightening." --Publishers Weekly"Solove . . . truly understands the intersection of law and technology. This book is a fascinating journey into the almost surreal ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the digital age." --The Wall Street Journal"Solove is one of the most energetic and creative scholars writing about privacy today." --Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age"Powerful theme." --Privacy Journal"This is not only a book you should read, but you should make sure your friends read it." --IEEE Review"Solove offers a book that is both comprehensive and easy to understand, discussing the changes that technology has brought to our concept of privacy. An excellent starting point for much needed discussion." --Law Technology News"An unusually perceptive discussion of one of the most vexing problems of the digital age--our loss of control over our personal information. It's a fascinating journey into the almost surreal ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the digital age. I recommend his book highly." --Bruce Schneier"Solove drives his points home through considerable reconfiguration of the basic argument. Rather than casting blame or urging retreat to a precomputer database era, the solution is seen in informing individuals, challenging data collectors, and bringing the law up-to-date." --Choice"If you want to find out what a mess the law of privacy is, how it got that way, and whether there is hope for the future, then read this book." --Legal Times"Solove evaluates the shortcomings ofcurrent approaches to privacy as well as some useful a