The Assault On Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, And Dossiers

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In The Assault on Privacy: Computers, Data Banks, and Dossiers, Professor Miller has produced an alarming account of die impact information practices are having on our society and on our liberties. This eminently readable book reflects the disciplined research and the unique insights that are the distinctive trade-mark of an accomplished the value judgments he legal scholar. Equally as important are the values and judgments he imparts as one thoughtful American concerned with the preservation of liberty in a free society. With unusual brilliance and clarity the author warns of computer technology's inherent threat to privacy and individual constitutional rights society. He carefully documents the most important political and economic changes caused by burgeoning private and official data programs, by changing communications techniques, and by rapid new developments in computer hardware and software. Professor Miller's analysis of those changes and of the inadequacies of the present law governing them is vital to those of us who still believe that mans most cherished possession is individual liberty and who view privacy and political freedom as the most precious of liberties in this age of cybernetics. His proposals for reasserting control over the "information power'' bestowed by the new technology offer timely, creative, and pragmatic approaches to this grave threat to freedom.