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Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age

Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age

Paperback

Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0802080502
ISBN13: 9780802080509
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Apr 24 1999
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.05
Language: English

As the world moves into the twenty-first century, cellular systems, high-density data storage, and the Internet are but a few of the new technologies that promise great advances in productivity and improvements in the quality of life. Yet these new technologies also threaten personal privacy. A surveillance society, in which the individual has little control over personal information, may be the logical result of deregulation, globalization, and a mass data-processing capacity. Consumers report increasing concern over erosion of personal privacy even as they volunteer personal information in exchange for coupons, catalogues, and credit. What kind of privacy future are we facing? In Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age, some of the most prominent international theorists and practitioners in the field explore the impact of evolving technology on private citizens. The authors critically probe market, ethical, global, regulatory and advocacy issues, as each answers the question, 'How can we develop privacy solutions equal to the surveillance challenges of the future?'

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