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Privacy in peril / James B. Rule.
LIBRA JC596 .R85 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rule, James B., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Privacy, Right of.
- Privacy, Right of--United States.
- United States.
- Privacy, Right of--Cross-cultural studies.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 232 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- "Privacy is most certainly under pressure in all sorts of ways. Every day, the news brings a new harvest of horror stories-phone conversations, e-mail messages, and website visits surreptitiously recorded; sensitive medical records disseminated far and wide; consumers' credit charges abruptly raised through automated monitoring of their financial situations; air travelers turned away at departure gates because their names appear on lists whose origins cannot be explained; and on and on. But what is the larger trajectory of the trends at work here, and what can anyone expect to do about it? Any serious response to such questions requires some vision of the social, economic, and technological chemistry fueling pressures on privacy."
- Contents:
- The making of an issue
- The tensions of privacy and disclosure
- Privacy regimes in turmoil
- Blaming technology
- The idea of privacy protection
- Legislating privacy protection
- Spreading shadows
- Constraints and countercurrents
- Government surveillance
- Government surveillance in America
- Parallels abroad
- The coalescence of government surveillance
- Conclusion
- Personal data in the marketplace: credit, insurance and advertising
- The United States : a virtually free market for personal information
- Markets abroad : the American model versus privacy constraints
- Surveillance in motion
- Safe harbor
- Some rare privacy victories
- The future of privacy
- Privacy protection : the official response
- Privacy codes : a balance sheet
- Origins of the conflict
- The destination
- Collapsing resistance?
- "Needs," "purposes," and "consent"
- Some uncomfortable futures
- Ground to stand on
- Conclusion: where do we go from here?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195307832
- 0195307836
- OCLC:
- 126227072
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