Protecting personal information : the right to privacy reconsidered / Andrea Monti & Raymond Wacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monti, Andrea, 1967- author.

Wacks, Raymond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data protection--Law and legislation.

Data protection.

Privacy, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Chicago, Illinois : Hart Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"The concept of privacy has long been confused and incoherent. The right to privacy has been applied promiscuously to an alarmingly wide-ranging assortment of issues including free speech, political consent, abortion, contraception, sexual preference, noise, discrimination, and pornography. The conventional definition of privacy, and attempts to evolve a 'privacy-as-a-fence' approach, are unable to deal effectively with the technological advances that have significantly altered the way information is collected, stored, and communicated. Social media such as Facebook pose searching questions about the use and protection of personal information and reveal the limits of conceiving the right to privacy as synonymous with data protection. The recent European Union's GDPR seeks to enforce greater protection of personal information, but the overlap with privacy has further obscured its core meaning. This book traces these troubling developments, and seeks to reveal the essential nature of privacy and, critically, what privacy is not."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Personal information and privacy

Personal information and data protection

Personal information and power

Personal information, goods, and services

Personal information and freedom

Personal information and the media

Personal information and memory

Privacy reconsidered.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781509924882

1509924884

9781509924868

1509924868

9781509924875

1509924876

OCLC:

1086487879