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Privacy in Peril - How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience (Paperback) Loot Price: R723
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Privacy in Peril - How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience (Paperback): James B....

Privacy in Peril - How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience (Paperback)

James B. Rule

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This provocative book offers a probing account of the erosion of privacy in American society, that shows that we are often unwitting, if willing, accomplices, providing personal data in exchange for security or convenience. The author reveals that in today's "information society," the personal data that we make available to virtually any organization for virtually any purpose is apt to surface elsewhere, applied to utterly different purposes. The mass collection and processing of personal information produces such tremendous efficiencies that both the public and private sector feel justified in pushing as far as they can into our private lives. And there is no easy cure. Indeed, there are many cases where privacy invasion is both hurtful to the individual and indispensable to an organization's quest for efficiency. And as long as we willingly accept the pursuit of profit, or the reduction of crime, or cutting government costs as sufficient reason for intensified scrutiny over our lives, then privacy will remain endangered.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2009
First published: November 2009
Authors: James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program)
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-539436-8
Categories: Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Privacy & data protection
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Security services > General
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > Citizenship & nationality law > General
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LSN: 0-19-539436-4
Barcode: 9780195394368

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