We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet
as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through
a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming
videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking
twice, we operate with the understanding that the data that traces
these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There is
an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke, and, concrete rules
about our privacy that we can point to if we are pressed.
Nonetheless, too often we are uneasily reminded that our privacy is
not invulnerable-the data tracks we leave through our health
information, the internet and social media, financial and credit
information, personal relationships, and public lives make us
continuously prey to identity theft, hacking, and even government
surveillance. A great deal is at stake for individuals, groups, and
societies if privacy is misunderstood, misdirected, or misused.
Popular understanding of privacy doesn't match the heat the concept
generates, though understandably. With a host of cultural
differences as to how privacy is understood globally and in
different religions, and with ceaseless technological advancements,
it is an increasingly slippery and complex topic. In this clear and
accessible book, Leslie and John G. Francis guide us to an
understanding of what privacy can mean and why it is so important.
Drawing upon their extensive joint expertise in law, philosophy,
political science, regulatory policy, and bioethics, they parse the
consequences of the forfeiture, however great or small, of one's
privacy.
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