Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 026201162X ISBN 13: 9780262011624

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1997

Synopsis

Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with social institutions, individual privacy faces new threats and new opportunities. Over the last several years, the realm of technology and privacy has been transformed, creating a landscape that is both dangerous and encouraging. Significant changes include large increases in communications bandwidths; the widespread adoption of computer networking and public-key cryptography; mathematical innovations that promise a vast family of protocols for protecting identity in complex transactions; new digital media that support a wide range of social relationships; a new generation of technologically sophisticated privacy activists; a massive body of practical experience in the development and application of data-protection laws; and the rapid globalization of manufacturing, culture, and policy making.

The essays in this book provide a new conceptual framework for the analysis and debate of privacy policy and for the design and development of information systems. The authors are international experts in the technical, economic, and political aspects of privacy; the book's strength is its synthesis of the three. The book provides equally strong analyses of privacy issues in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Contributors:
Philip E. Agre, Victoria Bellotti, Colin J. Bennett, Herbert Burkert, Simon G. Davies, David H. Flaherty, Robert Gellman, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, David J. Phillips, Rohan Samarajiva.

About this title

About the Author

Philip E. Agre is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Marc Rotenberg is Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC, and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

Reviews

This is a collection of essays representing European, Canadian, and U.S. points of view on how technology is changing our understanding of what is private. Topics under review range from global policies for personal data, to privacy and multimedia, to privacy as a commodity rather than a right, to whether privacy is even possible in our postmodern world. While this is not easy reading, it is a solid, nonpolemical primer on a hugely important topic. Recommended for all academic libraries and most large public libraries.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026201162X
• ISBN 13: 9780262011624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Agre Philip E., Rotenberg Marc