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Legislating Privacy - Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Legislating Privacy - Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated
rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and
incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile
privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional
policy making in three key areas: computerized databases,
wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues,
legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting
those with a vested interest in new technology over those
advocating privacy protection. "Legislating Privacy" explores the
dynamics of congressional policy formulation and traces the limited
response of legislators to the concept of privacy as a fundamental
individual right. According to Regan, we will need an expanded
understanding of the social value of privacy if we are to achieve
greater protection from emerging technologies such as Caller ID and
genetic testing. Specifically, she argues that a recognition of the
social importance of privacy will shift both the terms of the
policy debate and the patterns of interest-group action in future
congressional activity on privacy issues.
Originally published in 1995.
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