****# Privacy Lost: How Technology is Endangering Your Privacy. By David H. Holtzman; published by Jossey-Bass, www.josseybass.com (Web); 352 pages; $24.95.

Few issues are as critical as personal data protection, and yet the loss or compromise of personal data has become nearly routine. This book provides a clear overview of the risks to privacy in the Digital Age, who the perpetrators are, and what we can do about it.

Author David H. Holtzman first shows how privacy violations affect our culture, our government, and most importantly, us. He breaks down privacy violations into seven categories or "sins," and offers corresponding "commandments" for an ethical approach to protecting privacy, going into far more depth than...