Privacy in Peril
How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 November 2009
- ISBN 9780195394368
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 152x231x22 mm
- Weight 399 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Privacy in Peril is the first book to look at the big picture of privacy-eroding trends, analyze their common roots, and anticipate their consequences. It looks at the conflicts within organizations to balance demands for efficiency against the more intensive use of personal data, and examines the choices society must make to enact barriers against this troublesome trend.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
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
