Online practices of business and government agencies may present new ways to compromise privacy, and e-commerce and technologies that make various kinds of personal information available to anyone with a Web browser only begin to suggest the possibility of intrusion of inappropriate or unreasonable to our personal lives. presents "Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in the Digital Age" comprehensive and multidisciplinary examination of privacy in the information age. It explores important concepts such as how the growing threat to privacy, how can privacy be protected and how society can balance the interests of individuals, businesses and governments in promoting privacy in ways that fairly and effectively? "Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in the Digital Age" focuses on three main components that affect the understanding, perceptions, and expectations of privacy: technological change, social change, and discontinuity depth.