Privacy: defending an illusion

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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.;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. 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.