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In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set of distinctly postindustrial social conflicts centered on the use of personal information as a means of social governance in the welfare state. Combining vast archival research with a groundbreaking theoretical analysis, this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society.
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Table of Contents List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in the Information Society
Part I: Population Registration, Power, and Privacy Chapter 1. The Federal Population Registration, Administrative Power, and the Politicization of Privacy
Part II: Negotiating Communicative Norms in the Computer Age: The Information Question and the Federal Privacy Protection Law, 1970-1990 Chapter 2. Rethinking Privacy in the Age of the Mainframe: From the Private Sphere to Informational Self-Determination
Chapter 3. The Legislative Path to the Federal Privacy Protection Law, 1970-77
Chapter 4. "Only Sheep Let Themselves Be Counted": The 1983/87 Census Boycotts, the Census Decision, and the Question of Statistical Governance
Chapter 5. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire: The Census Decision, Party Politics, and the Revision of the Federal Privacy Protection Law
Part III: The Precautionary Turn: Security, Surveillance, and the Changing Nature of the State Chapter 6. Paper, Power, and Policing: The Federal Criminal Police on the Cusp of the Computer Age
Chapter 7. The Quest for Security and the Meaning of Privacy: Computers, Networks, and the Securitization of Space, Place, Movement, and Identity
Chapter 8. Mapping the Radical Milieu: Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the New Police Surveillance
Chapter 9. The Reform of Police Law: Datenschutz, the Defense of Law, and the Debate over Precautionary Surveillance
Conclusion Selected Bibliography
A propos de l'auteur
Larry Frohman is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York. He is the author of Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I (Cambridge University Press, 2008), along with a series of articles on the welfare state.
Résumé
This book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s, highlighting the growing role of personal information as a tool for social governance.
