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Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures
Today identity is more than anything, economic. The technology used to create, utilize and protect identities is increasingly ill matched to the economics and uses of identities. Identity theft is the misuse of private authenticating information to steal money. Protecting identity requires privacy. Proving identity requires exposing information. The
Economics of Identity Theft , a professional book, discusses privacy as multi-dimensional, and then pulls forward the economics of privacy in the first few chapters. This book also includes identity-based signatures, spyware and placing biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The last chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status.
Contents:
Identity Theft.- Identity Online in Practice.- Secrecy, Privacy, Identity.- Economics of Privacy.- Economics of Security.- Identity Ownership Online.- Spyware, Zombies and 419.- Defeating the Great Masquerade.- Anonymous Credentials.- Identity-Based Signatures.- Biometrics: A Primer.- Reputation.- Four Views of the Future.- New Economics of Identity.
Brief Description:
The technology used to create, utilize and protect identities are ill matched to the economics and uses of identities. This book examines the technical and economic aspects of identity theft. It discusses privacy as multi-dimensional, and then presents the economics of privacy. It includes systematic problems with practical individual strategies.
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