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Technology & Privacy – The New Landscape (Paper) (The MIT Press) - Softcover

Agre, Philip

 
9780262511018: Technology & Privacy – The New Landscape (Paper) (The MIT Press)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262511010 ISBN 13: 9780262511018
Publisher: MIT Press, 1998

Synopsis

Privacy is the capacity to negotiate social relationships by controlling access to personal information. As laws, policies, and technological design increasingly structure people's relationships with social institutions, individual privacy faces new threats and new opportunities.

Over the last several years, the realm of technology and privacy has been transformed, creating a landscape that is both dangerous and encouraging. Significant changes include large increases in communications bandwidths; the widespread adoption of computer networking and public-key cryptography; mathematical innovations that promise a vast family of protocols for protecting identity in complex transactions; new digital media that support a wide range of social relationships; a new generation of technologically sophisticated privacy activists; a massive body of practical experience in the development and application of data-protection laws; and the rapid globalization of manufacturing, culture, and policy making.

The essays in this book provide a new conceptual framework for the analysis and debate of privacy policy and for the design and development of information systems. The authors are international experts in the technical, economic, and political aspects of privacy; the book's strength is its synthesis of the three. The book provides equally strong analyses of privacy issues in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Contributors
Philip E. Agre, Victoria Bellotti, Colin J. Bennett, Herbert Burkert, Simon G. Davies, David H. Flaherty, Robert Gellman, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, David J. Phillips, Rohan Samarajiva

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Review

" A remarkably comprehensive and provocative collection of essays." -- Peter G. Neumann, "Wired"

& quot; A remarkably comprehensive and provocative collection of essays.& quot; -- Peter G. Neumann, Wired

"A remarkably comprehensive and provocative collection of essays."--Peter G. Neumann, "Wired"

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Publisher
MIT Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0262511010
ISBN 13 
9780262511018
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
332