Privacy in context : technology, policy, and the integrity of social life / Helen Nissenbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nissenbaum, Helen, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy, Right of--United States.

Privacy, Right of.

Information technology--Social aspects--United States.

Information technology.

Information policy--United States.

Information policy.

Social norms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, c2010.

Summary:

As use of information technology increases, we worry that our personal information is being shared inappropriately, violating key social norms and irreversibly eroding privacy. This book describes how societies ought to go about deciding when to allow technology to lead change and when to resist it in the name of privacy.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: Information Technology's Power and Threat; 1 Keeping Track and Watching over Us; 2 Knowing Us Better than We Know Ourselves: Massive and Deep Databases; 3 Capacity to Spread and Find Everything, Everywhere; PART II: Critical Survey of Predominant Approaches to Privacy; 4 Locating the Value in Privacy; 5 Privacy in Private; 6 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Privacy in Public; PART III: The Framework of Contextual Integrity; 7 Contexts, Informational Norms, Actors, Attributes, and Transmission Principles; 8 Breaking Rules for Good

9 Privacy Rights in Context: Applying the FrameworkConclusion; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804772891

0804772894

OCLC:

589169142