The glass consumer : life in a surveillance society / edited by Susanne Lace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lace, Susanne.

National Consumer Council.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of.

Freedom of information.

Consumer profiling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

We are all 'glass consumers'. Organisations know so much about us, they can almost see through us. This book takes the debate beyond privacy issues, arguing that we are living in a world in which - more than ever before - our personal information defines our opportunities in life.

Contents:

Cover; THE GLASS CONSUMER - Life in a surveillance society; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Personal information: friend or foe?; Impacts on consumers; Outlining the chapters; Part One: Orientations; 1 - The personal information economy: trends and prospects for consumers; 2 - Regulatory provisions for privacy protection; 3 - The use and value of privacy enhancing technologies; Part Two: Contexts; 4 - The data-informed marketing model and its social responsibility; 5 - Personal data in the public sector: reconciling necessary sharing with confidentiality?

Part Three: Case studies6 - Data use in credit and insurance: controlling unfair outcomes; 7 - Personal information in the National Health Service: the demise or rise of patient interests?; Part Four: NCC's agenda; 8 - The new personal information agenda; Index

Notes:

Commissioned by The National Consumer Council.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611159825

9781447303831

1447303830

9781281159823

1281159824

9781847421272

184742127X

OCLC:

476250001