Visions of Privacy: Policy Choices for the Digital Age (Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802080502 ISBN 13: 9780802080509

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1998

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Colin J. Bennett is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802080502
• ISBN 13: 9780802080509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Bennett Colin J., Grant Rebecca