Privacy and the Information Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

Del i serien Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture

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Beskrivning

In a time in which new technologies make it easy to gather and process data, the discussion on privacy tends to focus exclusively on the protecting of personal data. To Serge Gutwirth, privacy involves far more. He advances the intriguing thesis that privacy is in fact the safeguard of personal freedom—the safeguard of the individual's freedom to decide who she or he is, what she or he does, and who knows about it. Any restriction on privacy thus means an infringement of personal freedom. And it's exactly this freedom that plays an essential role in every democracy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-12-22
Mått:148 x 228 x 12 mm
Vikt:236 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742517462
Översättare:Casert, Raf, Casert, RAF

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Serge Gutwirth is professor of law at the Free University of Brussels and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The Rathenau Institute, the Dutch national technology assessment organization, is an independent organization and is one of the institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Serge Gutwirth impressively draws on Dutch, German, French, and English language sources to develop a strong argument regarding the centrality of privacy to personal freedom and the challenges to that sacred connection posed by new, and increasingly omniscient, information technologies. A most welcome addition to the comparative literature on privacy and technology.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Privacy's ComplexitiesChapter 3 The Law on PrivacyChapter 4 Ambiguous PrivacyChapter 5 Privacy EndangeredChapter 6 Privacy and the Processing of Personal DataChapter 7 ConclusionChapter 8 Appendix: The European Community Directive on Personal DataChapter 9 BibliographyChapter 10 Index