ABSTRACT
Many excellent books offer illuminating descriptions of the current crises in online privacy and security. We take the next step and offer solutions. Our solutions are public policy recommendations. Society needs innovative policies to reap the proper benefits from rapid technological change. We hope our recommendations will be adopted and be successful, but we also have another important goal: a shared understanding of the problems and a common language in which to discuss and analyze solutions. Finding adequate solutions to today’s online privacy and security problems requires combining a computer scientist’s expertise with a lawyer’s understanding of how to forge sound public policy and laws. You don’t need to be a legal scholar or to know any computer science to read this book, even though it contains sophisticated and accurate computer science and law. We have written as much as possible in plain English, but our plain English descriptions should be of interest even to experts. Solving the privacy and security problems means experts in one field have to find ways to communicate with experts in another.
