Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations

Moore, Adam D.

ISBN 10: 0271036850 / ISBN 13: 9780271036854

Published by Penn State University Press (edition 1), 2010

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With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations
• Publisher: Penn State University Press (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271036850
• ISBN 13: 9780271036854
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

We all know that Google stores huge amounts of information about everyone who uses its search tools, that Amazon can recommend new books to us based on our past purchases, and that the U.S. government engaged in many data-mining activities during the Bush administration to acquire information about us, including involving telecommunications companies in monitoring our phone calls (currently the subject of a bill in Congress). Control over access to our bodies and to special places, like our homes, has traditionally been the focus of concerns about privacy, but access to information about us is raising new challenges for those anxious to protect our privacy. In Privacy Rights, Adam Moore adds informational privacy to physical and spatial privacy as fundamental to developing a general theory of privacy that is well grounded morally and legally.

About the Author

Adam D. Moore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington.