Taking Privacy Seriously - How to Create Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to

"This book is direct, impatient (in the best way possible), and urgent. It doesn’t waste time summarizing all the things we already know about privacy in the United States, but instead asks, What is to be done? We need a book like this."—David Murakami Wood, Professor, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa

List of contents

Contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction: Careering Down a Road Hardly Anyone Wants to Take 

1 Don’t Blame Technology 
2 Ban Personal-Decision Systems That Violate Core Values 
3 Require Consent for Disclosure 
4 Make Personal-Data Use Minimal, Transparent, and Trackable 
5 Institute a Right to Resign from Personal-Decision Systems 
6 Create a Universal Property Right over Commercialization of Data on Oneself 
7 Conclusions 
8 The Future 

Appendix 1: The Eleven Reforms 
Appendix 2: International Privacy Affirmations vs. Privacy Setbacks, 1983–2019 
Index 
 

About the author

James B. Rule has been writing about struggles over the control of personal information since his first book, Private Lives and Public Surveillance.

Product details

• Authors: James B. Rule
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2024
• EAN: 9780520382626
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38262-6
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Social issues & processes, Ethical issues & debates, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Ethical issues and debates, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Control, privacy and safety in society