CCNA Portable Command Guide or The Digital Person

Cancer Prevention and Management through Exercise and Weight Control

Author: Scott D Empson

"..it is increasingly clear that cancer is also a disease of inertia. In this book, a broadly multidisciplinary group presents the evidence and provides the recommendations. - The antidote to diseases of inertia is movement - let's move!"

John Potter, M.D.,Ph.D., from the Foreword

The American Cancer Society estimates that a third of all cancer deaths could be prevented through avoidance of obesity and the rejection of sedentary lifestyles. The World Health Organization also supports this claim. Additionally, these and other organizations now recognize the role that activity can play in improving the quality of life for cancer patients.

Cancer Prevention and Management through Exercise and Weight Control provides us with the support necessary to make a call to action. Itbrings together the contributions of world-class researchers to lay out the evidence and a plan of attack for coping with this crisis. The text begins by focusing on the research methods used in assessing the complex associations between activity, energy balance, and risk and prognosis. In comprehensive literature reviews, the authors consider the role of physical activity in the incidence of individual cancers, then explore the mechanisms that might explain this connection. They continue with a look at the relation between weight and cancer incidence, including a consideration of genetics.

Research is also provided linking physical activity and weight control to a cancer patient's quality of life and prognosis. The work concludes with ideas on how a plan of action might be implemented at the individual, clinical, and public health levels. It also provides guidance on incorporatingexercise and diet recommendations into clinical oncology practice.

See also: Good Housekeeping Smart Carb Suppers or Quick Low Carb

The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

Author: Daniel Solov

Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databases—which Daniel J. Solove calls "digital dossiers"—has thus far gone largely unchecked.  In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and using personal data, Solove explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy.

Digital dossiers impact many aspects of our lives. For example, they increase our vulnerability to identity theft, a serious crime that has been escalating at an alarming rate. Moreover, since September 11^th, the government has been tapping into vast stores of information collected by businesses and using it to profile people for criminal or terrorist activity. 

THE DIGITAL PERSON not only explores these problems, but provides a compelling account of how we can respond to them.  Using a wide variety of sources, including history, philosophy, and literature, Solove sets forth a new understanding of what privacy is, one that is appropriate for the new challenges of the Information Age. Solove recommends how the law can be reformed to simultaneously protect our privacy and allow us to enjoy the benefits of our increasingly digital world.

Daniel J. Solove is associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School.  He is the author (with Marc Rotenberg) of INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW. 

What People Are Saying

Paul Schwartz
A must-read. The Digital Person is a far-reaching examination of how 'digital dossiers' are shaping our lives. Solove has persuasively reconceptualized privacy for the digital age.
—Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Pamela Samuelson
Solove's book is the best exposition thus far about the threat that computer databases containing personal data about millions of Americans poses for information privacy. Solove documents not only how ongoing advances in information technology is increasing this threat significantly, but also how governmental uses of private sector databases and private sector uses of governmental databases are further eroding the privacy-by-obscurity protection of yesteryear. Most importantly, Solove offers a conception of privacy that, if adopted, provides guidance about policies that would preserve information privacy as a social value.
—Chancellor's Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley

Jeffrey Rosen
Daniel Solove is one of the most energetic and creative scholars writing about privacy today. The Digital Person is an important contribution to the privacy debate, and Solove's discussion of the harms of what he calls 'digital dossiers' is invaluable.
—author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	The rise of the digital dossier	13
3	Kafka and Orwell : reconceptualizing information privacy	27
4	The problems of information privacy law	56
5	The limits of market-based solutions	76
6	Architecture and the protection of privacy	93
7	The problem of public records	127
8	Access and aggregation : rethinking privacy and transparency	140
9	Government information gathering	165
10	The fourth amendment, records, and privacy	188
11	Reconstructing the architecture	210
12	Conclusion	223