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Privacy In Peril: How We Are Sacrificing A Fundamental Right In Exchange For Security And Convenience

By James B. Rule

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0195307836, 9780195307832, 0195394364, 9780195394368, 0199885745, 9780199885749, 0198042043, 9780198042044
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1317494 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
255\255
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2020-12-06 16:16:56
PrivacyRight Of; PrivacyRight Of: Cross-Cultural studiesRight Of: United States; Privacy

Description

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.

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