TY - BOOK ID - 213255 TI - Economics of identity theft : avoidance, causes and possible cures PY - 2007 SN - 1281337307 9786611337308 0387686142 0387345892 1441941827 PB - Boston, MA : Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, DB - UniCat KW - False personation. KW - Identity theft KW - Economic aspects. KW - Identity fraud KW - False personation KW - Theft KW - Impersonation (Crime) KW - Fraud KW - Impersonation KW - Biometrics. KW - Data encryption (Computer science). KW - Economics. KW - Computer security. KW - Business. KW - Computer Communication Networks. KW - Cryptology. KW - Economics, general. KW - Systems and Data Security. KW - Business and Management, general. KW - Trade KW - Economics KW - Management KW - Commerce KW - Industrial management KW - Computer privacy KW - Computer system security KW - Computer systems KW - Computers KW - Cyber security KW - Cybersecurity KW - Electronic digital computers KW - Protection of computer systems KW - Security of computer systems KW - Data protection KW - Security systems KW - Hacking KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Data encoding (Computer science) KW - Encryption of data (Computer science) KW - Computer security KW - Cryptography KW - Protection KW - Security measures KW - Biometrics (Biology). KW - Management science. KW - Computer communication systems. KW - Communication systems, Computer KW - Computer communication systems KW - Data networks, Computer KW - ECNs (Electronic communication networks) KW - Electronic communication networks KW - Networks, Computer KW - Teleprocessing networks KW - Data transmission systems KW - Digital communications KW - Electronic systems KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Electronic data processing KW - Network computers KW - Quantitative business analysis KW - Problem solving KW - Operations research KW - Statistical decision KW - Biological statistics KW - Biology KW - Biometrics (Biology) KW - Biostatistics KW - Biomathematics KW - Statistics KW - Distributed processing KW - Statistical methods UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:213255 AB - 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. Together, these points illustrate that the near-term search for cheap identity management is a formula for long-term fraud resulting in ever-increasing identity theft. The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures, 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 the placement of biometric security in an economically broken system, which results in a broken biometric system. The final chapters include systematic problems with practical individual strategies for preventing identity theft for any reader of any economic status. In conclusion, four startling previews of the future are written as scenarios. The Economics of Identity Theft: Avoidance, Causes and Possible Cures is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers. This book is also suitable as a secondary text for advanced-level students in computer science, economics and several other disciplines. . ER -