Privacy and the Digital State: Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy - Rilegato

Raul, Alan Charles

 
9780792375807: Privacy and the Digital State: Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy

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The terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 have greatly affected our lives, our livelihoods, and perhaps our way of living. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights were designed to inhibit excessively powerful government. But now, we are counting on it to prevent Americans from being killed with impunity, and to "insure domestic tranquility". In these times, the government must concentrate more on protecting concrete lives than protecting intangible privacy. The subject of this book - privacy - is where the conflict among our competing interests after September 11 is likely to be sharpest. "The right to be let alone", pales next to the right not to be blown-up. So "privacy" will inevitably need to accommodate security and safety to a greater extent than before September 11. But for America to continue being America, our constitutional mandates must still be genuinely respected.

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Recensione

`A thoughtful analysis of a thorny problem. Balancing privacy and the need to know in an open society has been made much harder and more complicated by digital-age technology. Alan Raul helps us find a way through the thicket.'
Evan Thomas, Newsweek
`Protecting the privacy personal information in the Internet era has become the hottest issue in Washington. Alan Raul does a brilliant job charting that mine field, dissecting the legal arguments and showing which issues require vigorous government action, and which don't. This book is a must read for anyone with a Social Security number.'
Alan Murray, author of The Wealth of Choices

Contenuti

Acknowledgments. Foreword. An Overview of Privacy and the Digital State. 1. Introduction to Privacy Issues. 2. The Federal Foundation for U.S. Privacy Policy. 3. Public Records Privacy. 4. Public Records and Electronic Government. 5. `Best Practices', Findings and Recommendations. 6. Conclusion: A Model Action Plan and Principles for Public Information and Privacy. Appendices. Selected Resource Materials and Links. About the Author. Index.

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9781461352891: Privacy and the Digital State: Balancing Public Information and Personal Privacy

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ISBN 10:  1461352894 ISBN 13:  9781461352891
Casa editrice: Springer, 2012
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