The Politics of Personal Information - Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2020
Authors:	Larry Frohman
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	406
ISBN-13:	978-1-78920-946-4
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Social & legal aspects of computing > Privacy & data protection Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Promotions
LSN:	1-78920-946-3
Barcode:	9781789209464

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