Financial Literacy in Public Libraries: A Guide for Building Collections: Consumer Protection and Fraud Prevention

50 Ways to Protect Your Identity in a Digital Age will give you the resources to protect your identity in the new digital age of information sharing and storage.

An insider looks at how retailers gain and use consumer information. Available in print and eBook formats.

Examines how market segmentation and big data place consumers at a disadvantage. Available in eBook and audio formats.

An analysis of flaws in cybersecurity, that allow criminals to access and drain bank accounts and access personal information.

Recounts the history of consumerism over the past 600 years, including the development of consumer activism, consumer protection, and consumer rights. Available in print format only.

Teaches the basics of behavioral finance and helps build consumer knowledge about personal finance. Available in print format only.

The book is designed for both preservice and in service social studies teachers and is written at a level understandable to both undergraduate and graduate students. The book challenges the teacher or teacher-to-be to think critically about financial literacy instruction as a necessary and important portal to social justice for the students of today.

Provides advice and resources to recognize what information vulnerable and how. Also, provides guidance for minimizing risk, improving internet safety, and steps to take if identity theft happens. Available in print and eBook formats.

Written for middle grade age children, large photographs help illustrate this information about online privacy and identity theft.

Discusses the vulnerabilities in Internet security, the types of websites most at risk to hacking, and emerging remedies to improve the situation. Available in print and eBook

Examines how companies compile and make money from personal medical records and offers insight for consumers to change this process. Available in print and eBook formats.

Describes how fraudsters perpetrate scams and what consumers can do to fight back. Available in print and eBook formats.

With so many data-based forms of technology in the world today, it can be hard to keep track of everything you need to know. In this book, students will learn how the collection and use of data plays an important role in projects of all kinds.

Discuss advantages and disadvantages to the age of big data. Authors offer insight for readers to adjust online behaviors and to keep information private, even when under possible surveillance.

This book is meant to help readers understand what types of security measures are available online in order to see the implications of pitfalls and risks they may be taking on a daily basis.

A practical, up-to-date guide to scam-proofing.

Describes the tension between protecting investors and the need for a regulatory framework that allows for capital formation. Available in print and eBook formats.

Explains how con artists take advantage of human emotions, and what consumers can do to protect themselves. Available in print and eBook formats.

Insights from behavioral economics about why and how people make poor financial decisions. Available in print format only.

A detailed description of Bernie Madoff and how he perpetrated one of the biggest and most consequential financial crimes in recent memory. Available in print and eBook formats.