Karen Lawrence Öqvist

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Web 2.0 and social networking sites are challenging traditional notions of privacy and security in cyberspace, at a time when surveillance and tracking in the real world have reached endemic proportions.

As the gap between virtual and reality becomes increasingly blurred by current and emerging technologies, the way we communicate and interact with one another is changing as well. But what are the implications for our privacy, and what impact will this have on our safety and security?

"Virtual Shadows" provides a fascinating glimpse into this brave new Information Society. It covers a diverse range of topics which span the 4 key areas of privacy (information, bodily, communications and territorial), where the rules of play have not yet been clearly defined, much less understood.

Subjects covered include:

• Social networking
• Blogging
• Second Life
• Cyber bullying
• Biometric passports
• DNA databases
• ID Cards and identity theft
• Data mining
• CCTV
• Wire-tapping
• Supermarket loyalty schemes
• Mobile phones
• GPS and RFID

Press release: New BCS book asks what is privacy in today's information society

About the author

Karen Lawrence Oqvist is a specialist in Information Security and Identity Management with 20 years experience in IT, 15 of which have been in the area of information security and identity management. She holds a Masters Degree in Information Security from the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) and has authored a number of articles for the ISSA Journal on identity and privacy, which have been reprinted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Karen has previously worked for CERN and Novell, and today works for Hewlett-Packard as a Security Solution Architect. Karen's blog

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