
Security and Privacy
Global Standards for Ethical Identity Management in Contemporary Liberal Democratic States
ANU Press
Published on 1. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
291 pages
978-1-921862-57-1 (ISBN)
Description
This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology - electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling - in the context of transnational crime and global terrorism. The ethical challenge at the heart of this study is to establish an acceptable and sustainable equilibrium between two central moral values in contemporary liberal democracies, namely, security and privacy. Both values are essential to individual liberty, but they come into conflict in times when civil order is threatened, as has been the case from late in the twentieth century, with the advent of global terrorism and trans-national crime. We seek to articulate legally sustainable, politically possible, and technologically feasible, global ethical standards for identity management technology and policies in liberal democracies in the contemporary global security context. Although the standards in question are to be understood as global ethical standards potentially to be adopted not only by the United States, but also by the European Union, India, Australasia, and other contemporary liberal democratic states, we take as our primary focus the tensions that have arisen between the United States and the European Union.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Canberra
Australia
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
1 Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 176 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
694 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-921862-57-1 (9781921862571)
DOI
10.22459/SP.12.2011
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