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Population Registers and Privacy in Britain, 1936-1984 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Population Registers and Privacy in Britain, 1936-1984 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book examines the fraught political relationship between
British governments, which wanted information about peoples' lives,
and the people who desired privacy. To do this it looks at
something that Britain only experienced in wartime, a centralized
and up-to-date list of everyone in the country: a population
register. The abolition of this wartime system is contrasted with
later attempts to reintroduce registration, and the change in the
political mind-set driving these later schemes to develop
centralised webs of so-called objective data is examined. These
policies were confronted by privacy campaigns, studied here, but it
is shown how government responses succeeded in turning political
debates about data into technical discussions about
computerization; thus protecting its data, largely on paper, from
oversight. This reformulation also shaped the 1984 Data Protection
Act, which consequently did not protect privacy but rather
increased government's ability to gain knowledge of, and hence
power over, the people.
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