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What stays in Vegas : the world of personal data lifeblood of big business and the end of privacy as we know it / Adam Tanner ; Pete Garceau, cover design ; Cynthia Young, book design.
Author
Tanner, Adam
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : PublicAffairs, 2014.
©2014
Description
1 online resource (337 p.)
Availability
Available Online
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Ceasars Entertainment
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Case studies
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Casinos
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Nevada
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Las Vegas
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Customer services
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Case studies
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Consumer profiling
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United States
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Business intelligence
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United States
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Privacy, Right of
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United States
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Cover designer
Garceau, Pete
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Book designer
Young, Cynthia
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Summary note
In What Stays in Vegas, Reuters journalist and Harvard fellow Adam Tanner exposes the greatest threat to online privacy. It's not the NSA, but private American firms. These are companies like Caesar's Entertainment in Las Vegas that operate behind the scenes, behind the tiny script of legal agreements, with little to no oversight. ?This is the information age, and information is power!" screamed DocuSearch, ""America's Premier Resource for Private Investigator Searches & Lookups"" in 1996--and they were right.Despite the fact that Caesar's casinos are decades old and can't
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
Language note
English
Contents
Contents; Introduction: Spies; 1: What Happens Here, Stays Here?; 2: A Harvard Professor Comes to Vegas; 3: Loyalty; 4: Casino Data Gathering in Action; 5: A Celebrity, a Private Eye, and a Hit Man; 6: Dossiers on (Virtually) Everyone; 7: Direct Marketing; 8: Recession; 9: The Puzzle of Your Identity; 10: The Hunt for a Mystery Woman; 11: Thousands of Eyes; 12: Mugged; 13: Internet Advertising; 14: Seeking the Goldilocks Balance; 15: New Frontiers in Customer Data; 16: Casino Adventures in Three Cities; 17: Embracing Outside Data; 18: The Not-So-Enriching Business of Privacy; 19: Empowerment
AcknowledgmentsAppendix: Take Control of Your Data; Notes; Bibliography; Index
ISBN
1-61039-419-4
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What stays in Vegas : the world of personal data -- lifeblood of big business -- and the end of privacy as we know it / Adam Tanner.
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What stays in Vegas : the world of personal data--lifeblood of big business--and the end of privacy as we know it / Adam Tanner.
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