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Second Generation Biometrics: The Ethical, Legal and Social Context (Hardcover, 2012): Emilio Mordini, Dimitros Tzovaras Second Generation Biometrics: The Ethical, Legal and Social Context (Hardcover, 2012)
Emilio Mordini, Dimitros Tzovaras
R2,839 Discovery Miles 28 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While a sharp debate is emerging about whether conventional biometric technology offers society any significant advantages over other forms of identification, and whether it constitutes a threat to privacy, technology is rapidly progressing. Politicians and the public are still discussing fingerprinting and iris scan, while scientists and engineers are already testing futuristic solutions. Second generation biometrics - which include multimodal biometrics, behavioural biometrics, dynamic face recognition, EEG and ECG biometrics, remote iris recognition, and other, still more astonishing, applications - is a reality which promises to overturn any current ethical standard about human identification. Robots which recognise their masters, CCTV which detects intentions, voice responders which analyse emotions: these are only a few applications in progress to be developed.

This book is the first ever published on ethical, social and privacy implications of second generation biometrics. Authors include both distinguished scientists in the biometric field and prominent ethical, privacy and social scholars. This makes this book an invaluable tool for policy makers, technologists, social scientists, privacy authorities involved in biometric policy setting. Moreover it is a precious instrument to update scholars from different disciplines who are interested in biometrics and itswider social, ethical and political implications.

Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Christopher Warne Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics' - A Reader's Guide (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Christopher Warne
R4,246 Discovery Miles 42 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Continuum's Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the reader toward a thorough understanding of often demanding material. Ideal for undergraduate students, the guides provide an essential resource for anyone who needs to get to grips with a philosophical text. Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is one of the most significant works of moral philosophy ever written. It is certainly among the most widely read and studied, a staple of undergraduate courses that continues to inspire ethical thought to this day. As such, it is a hugely important and exciting, yet challenging, piece of philosophical writing. In "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics': A Reader's Guide", Christopher Warne offers a clear and thorough account of this key philosophical work. The book sets Aristotle's work in context, introduces the major themes and provides a detailed discussion of the key sections and passages of the text. Warne goes on to explore some of the areas of thought that the "Nicomachean Ethics" has impacted upon and provides useful information on further reading. This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts.

New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics - Theoretical and Practical (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Wenceslao J Gonz alez New Perspectives on Technology, Values, and Ethics - Theoretical and Practical (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Wenceslao J Gonz alez
R2,901 R1,865 Discovery Miles 18 650 Save R1,036 (36%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on a key issue today: the role of values in technology, with special emphasis on ethical values. This topic involves the analysis of internal values in technology (as they affect objectives, processes, and outcomes) and the study of external values in technology (social, cultural, economic, ecological, etc.). These values - internal and external - are crucial to the decision making of engineers. In addition, they have increasing relevance for citizens concerned with the present and future state of technology, which gives society a leading position in technological issues. The book follows three main lines of research: 1) new perspectives on technology, values, and ethics; 2) rationality and responsibility in technology; and 3) technology and risks. This volume analyzes the two main sides involved here: the theoretical basis for the role of values in technology and a practical discussion on how to implement them in our society. Thus, the book is of interest for philosophers, engineers, academics of different fields and policy-makers. The style used lends itself to broad audience.

Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values - Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 2 (Hardcover, 2015... Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values - Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 2 (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, …
R3,549 Discovery Miles 35 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge and how engineering science and engineering design interact in practice. Authors bring with them perspectives from their institutional homes in Europe, North America, Australia\ and Asia. The volume includes 24 contributions by more than 30 authors from engineering, the social sciences and the humanities. Additional issues the chapters scrutinize include prominent norms of engineering, how they interact with the values of efficiency or environmental sustainability. A concluding set of articles considers the meaning of context more generally by asking if engineers create their own contexts or are they created by contexts. Taken as a whole, this collection of original scholarly work is unique in its broad, multidisciplinary consideration of the changing character of engineering practice.

The Concept of Hell (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Robert Arp, Benjamin McCraw The Concept of Hell (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Robert Arp, Benjamin McCraw
R2,573 R1,819 Discovery Miles 18 190 Save R754 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is the nature of Hell? What role(s) may Hell play in religious, political, or ethical thought? Can Hell be justified? This edited volume addresses these questions and others; drawing philosophers from many approaches and traditions to analyze and examine Hell.

Agricultural Ethics - An Invitation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Robert L. Zimdahl Agricultural Ethics - An Invitation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Robert L. Zimdahl
R4,897 Discovery Miles 48 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

I write because I am concerned that I and my agricultural colleagues have avoided addressing the moral dimension of the environmental and social problems we have contributed to. I hope for an exchange of ideas about agriculture's moral dilemmas. I encourage my readers to engage in a collective conversation about the dilemmas and avoid remaining in what Merton calls "the collective arrogance and despair of his own herd." If those engaged in agriculture continue to ignore and fail to realize our common difficulties they will be addressed and resolved by societal pressure and political action, which may not yield the resolution we favor. The book's goal is not to resolve the moral dilemmas raised. It is to raise them and encourage thought and discussion. It will ask but not answer why nearly all involved in agriculture have not addressed the moral concerns voiced by the general public. The agricultural enterprise is committed to the benefits and future success of the present, very productive, chemical, capital, and energy intensive system, which is, in the minds of many, not sustainable. The internal justification invokes the moral claim that they feed the world's population. The question remains whether or not the prevailing moral justification of feeding the world is adequate given all the issues modern, developed country agriculture faces: pesticides in soil, water, and food, cruelty to animals, Biotech/GMO's, corporate agriculture, pollution by animal factory waste, exploitation of and cruelty to migrant labor.

Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Gregg D. Caruso Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Gregg D. Caruso
R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive critical treatment of Ted Honderich's philosophy, focusing on three major areas of his work: (1) his theory of consciousness; (2) his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and (3) his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Humanity and his judgments on terrorism. Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, Honderich is a leading contemporary philosopher of mind, determinism and freedom, and morals. The collection begins with a comprehensive introduction written by Honderich followed by fourteen original chapters separated into three sections. Each section concludes with a set of remarks by Honderich. Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Paul Snowdon, Alastair Hannay, Barbara Gail Montero, Barry Smith, Derk Pereboom, Paul Russell, Kevin Timpe, Gregg D. Caruso, Mary Warnock, Paul Gilbert, Richard J. Norman, Michael Neumann, and Saul Smilansky.

Stoicism - A Complete Guide to Stoicism, Stoic Philosophy, and the Wisdom of Stoicism (Hardcover): Chris Wilson Stoicism - A Complete Guide to Stoicism, Stoic Philosophy, and the Wisdom of Stoicism (Hardcover)
Chris Wilson
R595 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R101 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Variety of Values - Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love (Hardcover): Susan Wolf The Variety of Values - Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love (Hardcover)
Susan Wolf
R3,793 Discovery Miles 37 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For over thirty years Susan Wolf has been writing about moral and nonmoral values and the relation between them. This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love." Wolf's essays warn us against the common tendency to classify values in terms of a dichotomy that contrasts the personal, self-interested, or egoistic with the impersonal, altruistic or moral. On Wolf's view, this tendency ignores or distorts the significance of such values as love, beauty, and truth, and neglects the importance of meaningfulness as a dimension of the good life. These essays show us how a self-conscious recognition of the variety of values leads to new understandings of the point, the content, and the limits of morality and to new ways of thinking about happiness and well-being.

Why Vegan? (Paperback): Peter Singer Why Vegan? (Paperback)
Peter Singer
R159 R143 Discovery Miles 1 430 Save R16 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should live our lives. The ideas collected in these writings, arguing that human tyranny over animals is a wrong comparable to racism and sexism, triggered the animal rights movement and gave impetus to the rise in vegan eating. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy - Climate Change and Health (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Cheryl C Macpherson Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy - Climate Change and Health (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Cheryl C Macpherson
R3,261 R1,865 Discovery Miles 18 650 Save R1,396 (43%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Changes in earth's atmosphere, oceans, soil, weather patterns, and ecosystems are well documented by countless scientific disciplines. These manifestations of climate change harm public health. Given their goals and social responsibilities, influential health organizations recognize health impacts compounded by geography, social values, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and relationships between humans and environments primarily described in feminist ethics and environmental ethics. Health impacts are relevant to, but seldom addressed in bioethics, global health, public policy, or health or environmental policy. This book is the first to describe cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic factors that influence the regional significance of these impacts and frame them for bioethics and policy analyses.

Kant's 'Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals' - A Reader' Guide (Hardcover): Paul Guyer Kant's 'Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals' - A Reader' Guide (Hardcover)
Paul Guyer
R4,246 Discovery Miles 42 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Kant is probably the philosopher who best typifies the thought and ideals of the Enlightenment. He was influenced by the modern physics of Newton, the rationalist perfectionism of Leibniz and Wolff, the critical empiricism of Locke and Hume, and Rousseau's celebration of liberty and individualism, and his work can be seen partly as an attempt to combine and synthesize these various ideas. In moral philosophy, he developed a radical and radically new conception of the unconditional value of human autonomy, which he opposed to both theological and utilitarian conceptions of moral value. He first expounded his moral vision in the "Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785), the seminal work of modern moral philosophy in which he introduced his infamous 'categorical imperative'. Paul Guyer's Reader's Guide will help readers find their way in this brilliant but dense and sometimes baffling work.

The Realist Turn - Repositioning Liberalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J.Den Uyl The Realist Turn - Repositioning Liberalism (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J.Den Uyl
R2,503 Discovery Miles 25 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl maintain that a realist turn-namely, one in which the natural order is the basis for individual rights-is needed to bring about a proper understanding and defense of liberty. They argue that the critical character of individual rights results from their being tethered to metaphysical realism. After reprising their explanation and defense of natural rights, Rasmussen and Den Uyl explain metaphysical realism and defend it against neo-pragmatist objections. They show it to be a formidable and preferable alternative to epistemic constructivism and crucial for a suitable understanding of ideal theory.

The Power of Transformation - How to Find Physical, Spiritual and Emotional Wellness and Live Life to Its Fullest (Hardcover):... The Power of Transformation - How to Find Physical, Spiritual and Emotional Wellness and Live Life to Its Fullest (Hardcover)
Pauline E. Lewinson
R785 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R122 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Power of Transformation shows you how to create true balance and serenity in every area of your life by applying biblical principles and trusting in Jesus as your instrument of change. By learning how to recognize the differences between the spirit and the flesh, good and evil, and how these things are in constant conflict, you will be inspired to find hope in every situation, to foster and embrace total transformation Pauline E. Lewinson draws upon her own experience in finding spiritual fulfillment to guide you on this wondrous path. With warm and honest candor, Lewinson shows believers and unbelievers alike the powerful potential for the kind of change you will have if you fully surrender your life to Jesus Christ. She discusses such important topics as: Life Purpose and change Relationship between prayer and faith Prophecies, healings and miracles Christian marriages and families Importance of worship and Team Building And much more If you're ready to restore and renew your life, then let The Power of Transformation be your guide. Turn to the Lord in all that you do and you will soon discover peace, fulfillment and joy

Animals in Tillich's Philosophical Theology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Abbey-Anne Smith Animals in Tillich's Philosophical Theology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Abbey-Anne Smith
R2,577 Discovery Miles 25 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores how Paul Tillich's systematic theology, focusing on the concepts of being and reason can benefit nonhuman animals, while also analysing how taking proper account of nonhuman animals can prove immensely beneficial. The author first explains the body of Tillich's system, examining reason and revelation, life and the spirit, and history and the kingdom of God. The second section undertakes a critical analysis of Tillichian concepts and their adequacy in relation to nonhuman animals, addressing topics such as Tillich's concept of 'technical reason' and the multidimensional unity of life. The author concludes by discussing the positive concepts in Tillich's systematic theology with respect to nonhuman animals and creation, including the concept of universal salvation and Tillich's interpretation of nonhuman animals and the Fall in Genesis.

Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi (Paperback): Mark Boyle Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi (Paperback)
Mark Boyle
R329 R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Save R65 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More than ever, people across the planet want deep and meaningful change. From those campaigning for social justice and ecological sustainability, to those who want to protect animals, indigenous cultures and those in poverty, millions are realising that another world is not only possible, but absolutely essential. Yet despite the creative and determined efforts of so many, our crises deepen. A politico-economic system, increasingly benefiting a small elite, has brought us to the brink of climate catastrophe, ransacking ecosystems and unravelling communities, forcing us into unhealthy ways of life that conflict with our deepest yearnings. The problem may no longer be a lack of will - but a dogmatic adherence to laws and cultural narratives designed to keep things just the way they are. In this incendiary book, best-selling author Mark Boyle explores, with terrible beauty, the uncharted depths of these challenges, and how we might face them with dignity, great heart and potency.Drawing on inspiration from the natural world, he sets out the case for the rewilding of our political landscapes, calling for solidarity between reformers, revolutionaries and resisters for the creation of a world worth sustaining. His uncompromising and surprising conclusions could revolutionise the way we face the challenges of our time.

Accounting for the Public Interest - Perspectives on Accountability, Professionalism and Role in Society (Hardcover, 2014 ed.):... Accounting for the Public Interest - Perspectives on Accountability, Professionalism and Role in Society (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Steven Mintz
R3,374 Discovery Miles 33 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume explores the opportunities and challenges facing the accounting profession in an increasingly globalized business and financial reporting environment. It looks back at past experiences of the profession in attempting to meet its public interest obligation. It examines the role and responsibilities of accounting to society including regulatory requirements, increased emphasis on corporate social responsibility, accounting fraud and whistle-blowing implications, internationalization of public interest obligations, and providing the education needed to be successful. The book incorporates an ethical dimension in making these assessments. Its focus is a conceptual, theoretical one drawing on classical philosophy, the sociology of professions, economic theory, and the public interest dimension of accountants as professionals. The authors of papers are long-time contributors to the annual symposium on Research in Accounting Ethics sponsored by the Public Interest Section of the AAA.


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A New Environmental Ethics - The Next Millennium for Life on Earth (Hardcover): Holmes Rolston III A New Environmental Ethics - The Next Millennium for Life on Earth (Hardcover)
Holmes Rolston III
R3,890 Discovery Miles 38 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

No one looking ahead at the middle of the last century could have foreseen the extent and the importance of the ensuing environmental crises. Now, more than a decade into the next century, no one can ignore it.

A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth offers clear, powerful, and oftentimes moving thoughts from one of the first and most respected philosophers to write on the environment. Rolston, an early and leading pioneer in studying the moral relationship between humans and the earth, surveys the full spectrum of approaches in the field of environmental ethics. This book, however, is not simply a judicious overview. Instead, it offers critical assessments of contemporary academic accounts and draws on a lifetime of research and experience to suggest an outlook for the future. As a result, this focused, forward-looking analysis will be a necessary complement to any balanced textbook or anthology in environmental ethics, and will teach its readers to be responsible global citizens, and residents of their landscape, helping ensure that the future we have will be the one we wish for.

Free Markets and the Culture of Common Good (Hardcover, 2012): Martin Schlag, Juan Andres Mercado Free Markets and the Culture of Common Good (Hardcover, 2012)
Martin Schlag, Juan Andres Mercado
R2,812 Discovery Miles 28 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recent economic development and the financial and economic crisis require a change in our approach to business and finance. This book combines theology, economy and philosophy in order to examine in detail the idea that the functioning of a free market economy depends upon sound cultural and ethical foundations.

The free market is a cultural achievement, not only an economic phenomenon subject to technical rules of trade and exchange. It is an achievement which lives by and depends upon the values and virtues shared by the majority of those who engage in economic activity. It is these values and virtues that we refer to as culture. Trust, credibility, loyalty, diligence, and entrepreneurship are the values inherent in commercial rules and law. But beyond law, there is also the need for ethical convictions and for global solidarity with developing countries. This book offers new ideas for future sustainable development and responds to an increasing need for a new sense of responsibility for the common good in societal institutions and good leadership.

Morally-Demanding Infinite Responsibility - The Supererogatory Attitude of Levinasian Normativity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... Morally-Demanding Infinite Responsibility - The Supererogatory Attitude of Levinasian Normativity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Julio Andrade
R3,276 Discovery Miles 32 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a conceptual mapping of supererogation in the analytic moral philosophical tradition. It first asks whether supererogation can be conceptualised in the absence of obligation or duty and then makes the case that it can be. It does so by enlisting the resources of the continental tradition, specifically using the work of Emmanuel Levinas and his notion of infinite responsibility. In so doing the book contributes to the ongoing efforts to create a common ethical terminology between the analytic and continental traditions within moral philosophy. Supererogatory actions are praiseworthy actions that go 'beyond duty', and yet are not blameworthy when not performed. In responding to this paradox, moral philosophy either brackets or attempts a reductionism of supererogation. Supererogation is epitomised in the paradigmatic figures of the saint and hero. Yet, most would agree that emulating these figures is too morally demanding. We rightly ask: where does moral obligation end? Is it even possible, or desirable to demarcate such a boundary? Besides the important theoretical issues these questions raise, they also speak to practical ethical dilemmas in the contemporary milieu, as they concern the global wealthy's responsibility to the poor and the challenges of development aid work.

Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, Williams, and the Internal Point of View (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Rob Compaijen Kierkegaard, MacIntyre, Williams, and the Internal Point of View (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Rob Compaijen
R3,646 Discovery Miles 36 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book takes the debate about the (ir)rationality of the transition to ethical life in Kierkegaard's thought in a significantly new direction. Connecting the field of Kierkegaard studies with the meta-ethical debate about practical reasons, and engaging with Alasdair MacIntyre's and Bernard Williams' thought, it explores the rationality of the choices for ethical life and Christian existence. Defending a so-called 'internalist' understanding of practical reasons, Compaijen argues that previous attempts to defend Kierkegaard against MacIntyre's charge of irrationality have failed. He provides a thorough analysis of such fundamental topics as becoming oneself, the ideal of objectivity in ethics and religion, the importance of the imagination, the power and limits of philosophical argument, and the relation between grace and nature. This book will be of great interest to Kierkegaard scholars in philosophy and theology, and, more generally, to anyone fascinated by the rationality of the transition to ethical life and the choice to accept Christianity.

Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Darian Meacham Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Darian Meacham
R2,830 Discovery Miles 28 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume addresses some of the most prominent questions in contemporary bioethics and philosophy of medicine: 'liberal' eugenics, enhancement, the normal and the pathological, the classification of mental illness, the relation between genetics, disease and the political sphere, the experience of illness and disability, and the sense of the subject of bioethical inquiry itself. All of these issues are addressed from a "continental" perspective, drawing on a rich tradition of inquiry into these questions in the fields of phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics, French epistemology, critical theory and post-structuralism. At the same time, the contributions engage with the Anglo-American debate, resulting in a fruitful and constructive conversation that not only shows the depth and breadth of continental perspectives in bioethics and medicine, but also opens new avenues of discussion and exploration. For decades European philosophers have offered important insights into the relation between the practices of medicine, the concept of illness, and society more broadly understood. These interventions have generally striven to be both historically nuanced and accessible to non-experts. From Georges Canguilhem's seminal The Normal and the Pathological, Michel Foucault's lectures on madness, sexuality, and biopolitics, Hans Jonas's deeply thoughtful essays on the right to die, life extension, and ethics in a technological age, Hans-Georg Gadamer's lectures on The Enigma of Health, and more recently Jurgen Habermas's carefully nuanced interventions on the question of liberal eugenics, these thinkers have sought to engage the wider public as much as their fellow philosophers on questions of paramount importance to current bioethical and social-political debate. The essays contained here continue this tradition of engagement and accessibility. In the best practices of European philosophy, the contributions in this volume aim to engage with and stimulate a broad spectrum of readers, not just experts. In doing so the volume offers a showcase of the richness and rigor of continental perspectives on medicine and society.

Punishment and Ethics - New Perspectives (Hardcover): J. Ryberg, J. Corlett Punishment and Ethics - New Perspectives (Hardcover)
J. Ryberg, J. Corlett
R1,455 Discovery Miles 14 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of original contributions by philosophers working in the ethics of punishment, gathering new perspectives on various challenging topics including punishment and forgiveness, dignity, discrimination, public opinion, torture, rehabilitation, and restitution.

Rethinking Celibacy, Reclaiming the Church (Hardcover): Michael H Crosby Rethinking Celibacy, Reclaiming the Church (Hardcover)
Michael H Crosby
R1,143 R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Save R221 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Discrimination and Privacy in the Information Society - Data Mining and Profiling in Large Databases (Hardcover, 2013 ed.):... Discrimination and Privacy in the Information Society - Data Mining and Profiling in Large Databases (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Bart Custers, Toon Calders, Bart Schermer, Tal Zarsky
R4,279 Discovery Miles 42 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Vast amounts of data are nowadays collected, stored and processed, in an effort to assist in making a variety of administrative and governmental decisions. These innovative steps considerably improve the speed, effectiveness and quality of decisions. Analyses are increasingly performed by data mining and profiling technologies that statistically and automatically determine patterns and trends. However, when such practices lead to unwanted or unjustified selections, they may result in unacceptable forms of discrimination. Processing vast amounts of data may lead to situations in which data controllers know many of the characteristics, behaviors and whereabouts of people. In some cases, analysts might know more about individuals than these individuals know about themselves. Judging people by their digital identities sheds a different light on our views of privacy and data protection. This book discusses discrimination and privacy issues related to data mining and profiling practices. It provides technological and regulatory solutions, to problems which arise in these innovative contexts. The book explains that common measures for mitigating privacy and discrimination, such as access controls and anonymity, fail to properly resolve privacy and discrimination concerns. Therefore, new solutions, focusing on technology design, transparency and accountability are called for and set forth.

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