Privacy in Peril
How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
1st Edition
Published on 25. October 2007
255 pages
978-0-19-804204-4 (ISBN)
Description
This probing account of the erosion of privacy in America shows that we are often unwitting, if willing, accomplices, providing personal data in exchange for security or convenience. The author shows that 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. As long as we willingly accept the pursuit of profit or cutting government costs as sufficient reason for intensified scrutiny over our lives, then privacy will remain endangered.
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Privacy in Peril
How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I: The Making of an Issue
- The Tensions of Privacy and Disclosure
- Privacy Regimes in Turmoil
- Blaming Technology
- The Idea of Privacy Protection
- Legislating Privacy Protection
- Spreading Shadows
- Constraints and Countercurrents
- Part II: Government Surveillance
- Government Surveillance in America
- Parallels Abroad
- The Coalescence of Government Surveillance
- Conclusion
- Part III: Personal Data in the Marketplace: Credit, Insurance, and Advertising
- The United States: A Virtually Free Market for Personal Information
- Markets Abroad: The American Model versus Privacy Constraints
- Surveillance in Motion
- Safe Harbor
- Some Rare Privacy Victories
- Conclusion
- Part IV: The Future of Privacy
- Privacy Protection: The Official Response
- Privacy Codes: A Balance Sheet
- Origins of the Conflict
- The Destination
- Collapsing Resistance?
- Needs,'' ''Purposes,'' and ''Consent''
- Some Uncomfortable Futures
- Ground to Stand On
- Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- C
- D
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