Understanding Privacy

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Pub. Date: 2009-09-30
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary

Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is virtually impossible. In this concise and lucid book, Daniel J. Solove offers a comprehensive overview of the difficulties involved in discussions of privacy and ultimately provides a provocative resolution. He argues that no single definition can be workable, but rather that there are multiple forms of privacy, related to one another by family resemblances. His theory bridges cultural differences and addresses historical changes in views on privacy. Drawing on a broad array of interdisciplinary sources, Solove sets forth a framework for understanding privacy that provides clear, practical guidance for engaging with relevant issues. Understanding Privacy will be an essential introduction to long-standing debates and an invaluable resource for crafting laws and policies about surveillance, data mining, identity theft, state involvement in reproductive and marital decisions, and other pressing contemporary matters concerning privacy.

Table of Contents

Preface
Privacy: A Concept in Disarray
Privacy: An Issue of Global Concern
Technology and the Rising Concern Over Privacy
The Concept of Privacy
A New Theory of Privacy
Conceptions of Privacy
Methods of Conceptualizing
Conceptions of Privacy
Can Privacy Be Conceptualized?
Reconstructing Privacy
Method
Generality
Variability
Focus
The Value of Privacy
The Virtues and Vices of Privacy
Theories of the Valuation of Privacy
The Social Value of Privacy
Privacy's Pluralistic Value
A Taxonomy of Privacy
The Need for a Taxonomy of Privacy
The Taxonomy
Information Collection
Information Processing
Information Dissemination
Invasion
Privacy: A New Understanding
The Nature of Privacy Problems
Privacy and Cultural Difference
The Benefits of a Pluralistic Conception of Privacy
The Future of Privacy
Notes
Index
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