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Human rights in an information age : a philosophical analysis / Gregory J. Walters.
LIBRA HM851 .W35 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walters, Gregory J., 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human rights.
- Human rights--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 335 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- The Information Age Revolution 4
- Three Ethical Challenges of Canadian Information Highway Policy 10
- Aims and Terminological Presuppositions 14
- The Conceptual Importance of Information to Human Rights 18
- Philosophical Parameters and Thesis 21
- 1 The Philosophical Framework 26
- The Information Age in the Context of Modernity 26
- Human Rights in an Information Age 32
- 2 Information Highway Policy and E-Commerce Strategy 53
- The Public Policy Product Cycle 53
- Historical and Sociological Specification of Canadian Communications Policy 55
- Industry Canada and the Information Highway Advisory Council 60
- IHAC Policy Phase I: 1993-95 61
- IHAC Policy Phase II: 1996-98 67
- IHAC Policy Phase III: The Canadian Electronic Commerce Strategy 69
- Methodological and Ethical Analysis 72
- 3 The Informational Economy, Work, and Productive Agency 80
- Productive Agency, Work, and Human Capital 81
- Two Justifications of Private Property 86
- Inequality and the Restriction of Property Rights 89
- The Global Situation: The Informational Economy 93
- The North American Situation 102
- The Informational Economy and the Community of Rights 116
- 4 Privacy and Security Policy: The Historical Situation 117
- The Global Situation 117
- The Canadian Situation 125
- 5 Privacy and Security: An Ethical Analysis 150
- Surveying Our Technological Situation 151
- Legal, Social Science, and Philosophical Conceptions of Privacy 157
- Action Theory and the Ethical Justification of Privacy Rights 164
- Privacy and Security Policy in the Light of the Principle of Human Rights 165
- 6 Information Warfare 187
- The 'Revolution in Military Affairs' 188
- Information Warfare: Definitions and Conceptions 190
- Global Surveillance Practices: The ECHELON Network 196
- Strategic Information Warfare Rising 199
- Information Warfare and International Human Rights Law 201
- Information Warfare and the Principle of Generic Consistency 204
- A 'Just' Information War? 213
- Is 'Perpetual Peace' Possible in the Information Age? 214
- 7 Information Warfare and Deterrence 218
- Information Warfare Policy: Clarifying the Terms of the Debate 219
- Instrumental Rationality, Reasonableness, and Motivation 221
- Strategic Information Warfare Deterrence and the Prisoner's Dilemma 225
- Rethinking Policy Alternatives for the Information Age 231.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0802035833 :
- OCLC:
- 46661422
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