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Privacy and the Information Age

Privacy and the Information Age

Paperback

Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture

General Law

ISBN10: 0742517462
ISBN13: 9780742517462
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Dec 22 2001
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In a time in which new technologies make it easy to gather and process data, the discussion on privacy tends to focus exclusively on the protecting of personal data. To Serge Gutwirth, privacy involves far more. He advances the intriguing thesis that privacy is in fact the safeguard of personal freedom-the safeguard of the individual's freedom to decide who she or he is, what she or he does, and who knows about it. Any restriction on privacy thus means an infringement of personal freedom. And it's exactly this freedom that plays an essential role in every democracy.

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