Privacy : defending an illusion /

Privacy : defending an illusion /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dowding, Martin Ridley.
Imprint:	Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 123 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Privacy, Right of. Privacy, Right of.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11300537

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ISBN:	9780810881037 9780810881020 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0810881020 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780810881037 (ebook) 0810881039 (ebook) 128309892X 9781283098922 9786613098924 6613098922 0810881039
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	Matters of privacy have profoundly changed since electronic storage of information has become the norm. Consequently, policy-makers and legislators are trying to keep up with privacy challenges in the workplace, in healthcare, in surveillance, and on social networking sites. With Privacy: Defending an Illusion, Martin Dowding fills a very important gap in policy analysis and the teaching of privacy issues at the senior undergraduate and early graduate student level. In the first section of this book, Dowding recounts historical interpretations of privacy in a wide variety of socio-cultural ci.
Other form:	Print version: Privacy Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011. 9780810881020 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

From space to cyberspace
A contrast between pre-ICT privacy and today's ICT realities
Did ICT create a new social norm?
Privacy legislation & policy : "illusory protection"
Surveillance & privacy denied
Privacy in the workplace
Privacy and health
Social networking.