Civil Rights - General, Computer Security, Civil Rights - Privacy, Databases Security
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Overview
Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to information about oneself. As laws, policies, and technological developments increasingly structure our relationships with social institutions, privacy faces new threats and new opportunities. The essays in this book provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing and debating privacy policy and for designing and developing information systems. The authors are international experts in the technical, economic, and political aspects of privacy; the book's particular strengths are its synthesis of these three aspects and its treatment of privacy issues in Canada and in Europe as well as in the United States.Synopsis
The essays in this book provide a new conceptual framework for the analysis and debate of privacy policy and for the design and development of information systems.
Wired
A remarkably comprehensive and provocative collection of essays.
Editorials
Wired
A remarkably comprehensive and provocative collection of essays.Library Journal
This is a collection of essays representing European, Canadian, and U.S. points of view on how technology is changing our understanding of what is private. Topics under review range from global policies for personal data, to privacy and multimedia, to privacy as a commodity rather than a right, to whether privacy is even possible in our postmodern world. While this is not easy reading, it is a solid, nonpolemical primer on a hugely important topic. Recommended for all academic libraries and most large public libraries.Book Details
Published
September 1, 1997
Publisher
MIT Press
Pages
334
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780262011624