Privacy in Peril: How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience - Brossura

Rule, James B.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195394364 ISBN 13: 9780195394368

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2009

Riassunto

This provocative book offers a probing account of the erosion of privacy in American society, that shows that we are often unwitting, if willing, accomplices, providing personal data in exchange for security or convenience. The author reveals that in today's "information society," the personal data that we make available to virtually any organization for virtually any purpose is apt to surface elsewhere, applied to utterly different purposes. The mass collection and processing of personal information produces such tremendous efficiencies that both the public and private sector feel justified in pushing as far as they can into our private lives. And there is no easy cure. Indeed, there are many cases where privacy invasion is both hurtful to the individual and indispensable to an organization's quest for efficiency. And as long as we willingly accept the pursuit of profit, or the reduction of crime, or cutting government costs as sufficient reason for intensified scrutiny over our lives, then privacy will remain endangered.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

James B. Rule is Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

Contenuti:

• Preface
• Part I - Privacy Under Pressure
• Part II - Government Surveillance
• Part III - Personal Data in the Marketplace: Credit, Insurance and Advertising
• Part IV - The Future of Privacy

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195394364
• ISBN 13: 9780195394368
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256