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Privacy in Peril James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

Privacy in Peril By James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

Summary

Privacy in Peril is the first book to look at the big picture of privacy-eroding trends, analyze their common roots, and anticipate their consequences. It looks at the conflicts within organizations to balance demands for efficiency against the more intensive use of personal data, and examines the choices society must make to enact barriers against this troublesome trend.

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Privacy in Peril: How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience by James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

This provocative book offers a probing account of the erosion of privacy in American society, that shows that we are often unwitting, if willing, accomplices, providing personal data in exchange for security or convenience. The author reveals that in today's "information society," the personal data that we make available to virtually any organization for virtually any purpose is apt to surface elsewhere, applied to utterly different purposes. The mass collection and processing of personal information produces such tremendous efficiencies that both the public and private sector feel justified in pushing as far as they can into our private lives. And there is no easy cure. Indeed, there are many cases where privacy invasion is both hurtful to the individual and indispensable to an organization's quest for efficiency. And as long as we willingly accept the pursuit of profit, or the reduction of crime, or cutting government costs as sufficient reason for intensified scrutiny over our lives, then privacy will remain endangered.

About James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

James B. Rule is Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Preface ; Part I - Privacy Under Pressure ; Part II - Government Surveillance ; Part III - Personal Data in the Marketplace: Credit, Insurance and Advertising ; Part IV - The Future of Privacy

Additional information

CIN0195394364G
9780195394368
0195394364
Privacy in Peril: How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience by James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law)
Used - Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press Inc
2009-11-26
256
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