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Understanding privacy / Daniel J. Solove.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009, 2008Description: x, 257 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0674035070
  • 9780674035072
  • 0674027728
  • 9780674027725
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.92 22
LOC classification:
  • BF637.P74 S65 2009
Contents:
1. 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 -- 2. Theories of privacy and their shortcomings -- Methods of conceptualizing -- Conceptions of privacy -- Can privacy be conceptualized? -- 3. Reconstructing privacy -- Method -- Generality -- Variability -- Focus -- 4. 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 -- 5. A taxonomy of privacy -- Information collection -- Information processing -- Information dissemination -- Invasion -- 6. 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.
Review: "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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-246) and index.

1. 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 -- 2. Theories of privacy and their shortcomings -- Methods of conceptualizing -- Conceptions of privacy -- Can privacy be conceptualized? -- 3. Reconstructing privacy -- Method -- Generality -- Variability -- Focus -- 4. 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 -- 5. A taxonomy of privacy -- Information collection -- Information processing -- Information dissemination -- Invasion -- 6. 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.

"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."--Jacket.

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