Revision with unchanged content. Privacy has become a significant issue
in 21st century society. Businesses, technologists, legislators, and
individuals are struggling to protect personal privacy as we develop our
knowledge economy. Innovation is required to help sectors such as
e-commerce and e-health face this new reality and ensure their software
and people uphold established privacy policies. The author examines
privacy from historical, societal, and technological perspectives.
Special attention is given to the domain of e-commerce, to public
opinion and policy, and to existing privacy software tools. Best
prac-tices for businesses and a methodology for quantitatively assessing
stake-holder concerns and creating and maintaining a set of privacy
policies are described. A general framework for automatically monitoring
e-commerce applications and detecting infractions of a privacy policy is
implemented and described. The framework is tested on a world-leading
e-commerce software application. This book is especially relevant to
information & privacy officers, business & technical managers, software
architects and testers, and any others wishing to extend their knowledge
of privacy and technology.
