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A practical, user-friendly handbook for understanding and protecting our personal data and digital privacy. Our Data, Ourselves addresses a common and crucial question: What can we as private individuals do to protect our personal information in a digital world? In this practical handbook, legal expert Jacqueline D. Lipton guides listeners through important issues involving technology, data collection, and digital privacy as they apply to our daily lives. Our Data, Ourselves covers a broad range of everyday privacy concerns with easily digestible, accessible overviews and real-world examples. Lipton explores the ways we can protect our personal data and monitor its use by corporations, the government, and others. She also explains our rights regarding sensitive personal data like health insurance records and credit scores, as well as what information retailers can legally gather, and how. Who actually owns our personal information? Can an employer legally access personal emails? What privacy rights do we have on social media? Answering these questions and more, Our Data, Ourselves provides a strategic approach to assuming control over, and ultimately protecting, our personal information.

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Jacqueline D. Lipton is a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law whose research and writing focus on digital technology law. She is also the author of Law and Authors: A Legal Handbook for Writers. Corinne Davies is a classically trained actress based in Los Angeles. Originally from Australia, Corinne has worked extensively in all areas of voice-over and on stage and screen. A highly skilled narrator, Corinne is building an impressive portfolio across many genres. Specializing in an array of accents and dialects, Corinne often narrates entire books in accents other than her own. She loves delving into a story and bringing the world and the characters to life. Her range spans the poetic, wordy, and lyrically complex to the dramatic and suspenseful to the romantic and warm to the lighthearted and comedic. Her recent credits include The War Widow by Tara Moss. She holds a BA in acting from the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) located in Sydney, Australia.

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