ABSTRACT
The protection of information in an interconnected digital world is an issue for all of us. We are surrounded by technology from our births to our deaths. Digital technologies are a major factor in our civilisation and, whether we like it or not, digital technologies and the Internet have brought us firmly into the Era of Technocivilisation1 (Figure 13.1). Information and communications technologies are everywhere; they are increasingly capable, increasingly invisible, but also increasingly intrusive. Telecommunications networks, using and including mobile telephone technologies, allow increasing access to communications, all the time, everywhere, with everyone but also with anyone.
