Security And Privacy: Global Standards For Ethical Identity Management In Contemporary Liberal Democratic States

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This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology – electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling – in the context of transnational crime and global terrorism. The ethical challenge at the heart of this study is to establish an acceptable and sustainable equilibrium between two central moral values in contemporary liberal democracies, namely, security and privacy. Both values are essential to individual liberty, but they come into conflict in times when civil order is threatened, as has been the case from late in the twentieth century, with the advent of global terrorism and trans-national crime. We seek to articulate legally sustainable, politically possible, and technologically feasible, global ethical standards for identity management technology and policies in liberal democracies in the contemporary global security context. Although the standards in question are to be understood as global ethical standards potentially to be adopted not only by the United States, but also by the European Union, India, Australasia, and other contemporary liberal democratic states, we take as our primary focus the tensions that have arisen between the United States and the European Union. Preliminary......Page 2 Preface......Page 7 Contributors......Page 9 Acknowledgments......Page 11 I. Crime Scenes and the Terroir of Terror......Page 13 II. Security and the Challenge to Liberal Values......Page 19 III. The Blessing and Bane of the Liberal Democratic Tradition......Page 23 IV. Divergent Formalities......Page 31 V. When the Rubber Hits the Road......Page 89 VI. Securitization Technologies......Page 101 VII. Surveillance Technologies and Economies......Page 141 VIII. The Underlying Values and their Alignment......Page 163 IX. The Complexities of Oversight and Accountability......Page 237 X. Recommendations......Page 253 Appendix: Security and Privacy Institutional Arrangements: Australia and India......Page 259 References......Page 275