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Global Privacy Protection reviews the origins and history of
national privacy codes as social, political and legal phenomena in
Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, South Korea and the
United States. The first chapter reviews key international
statements on privacy rights, such as the OECD, EU and APEC
principles. In the following chapters, the seven national case
studies present and analyze the widest variety of 'privacy stories'
in an equally varied array of countries. They look beyond the
details of what current national data-protection laws allow and
prohibit to examine the origins of public concern about privacy;
the forces promoting or opposing privacy codes; the roles of media,
grassroots activists and elite intervention; and a host of other
considerations shaping the present state of privacy protection in
each country. Providing a rich description of the interweaving of
national traditions, legal institutions, and power relations, this
book will be of great interest to scholars engaged in the study of
comparative law, information law and policy, civil liberties, and
international law. It will also appeal to policy-makers in the many
countries now contemplating the adoption of privacy codes, as well
as to privacy activists.
This work, sequel to the author's Theories of Civil Violence,
attacks questions that have long troubled social science and social
scientists - questions of the cumulative nature of social inquiry.
Does the knowledge generated by the study of social, political, and
economic life grow more comprehensive over time? Do today's social
scientists in any meaningful sense know more than their
intellectual ancestors about such perennial concerns as the origins
of war and peace, or the causes of economic growth, or the forces
shaping social stratification, or origins of civil upheaval? These
questions go to the heart of social scientists soul-searching as to
whether they are indeed engaged in science. The author pursues
these questions through in-depth examination of various theoretical
programmes currently influential in social science, including
feminist social science, rational choice theory, network analysis
and others.
Global Privacy Protection reviews the origins and history of
national privacy codes as social, political and legal phenomena in
Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, South Korea and the
United States. The first chapter reviews key international
statements on privacy rights, such as the OECD, EU and APEC
principles. In the following chapters, the seven national case
studies present and analyze the widest variety of 'privacy stories'
in an equally varied array of countries. They look beyond the
details of what current national data-protection laws allow and
prohibit to examine the origins of public concern about privacy;
the forces promoting or opposing privacy codes; the roles of media,
grassroots activists and elite intervention; and a host of other
considerations shaping the present state of privacy protection in
each country. Providing a rich description of the interweaving of
national traditions, legal institutions, and power relations, this
book will be of great interest to scholars engaged in the study of
comparative law, information law and policy, civil liberties, and
international law. It will also appeal to policy-makers in the many
countries now contemplating the adoption of privacy codes, as well
as to privacy activists.
This work, sequel to the author's Theories of Civil Violence,
attacks questions that have long troubled social science and social
scientists - questions of the cumulative nature of social inquiry.
Does the knowledge generated by the study of social, political, and
economic life grow more comprehensive over time? Do today's social
scientists in any meaningful sense know more than their
intellectual ancestors about such perennial concerns as the origins
of war and peace, or the causes of economic growth, or the forces
shaping social stratification, or origins of civil upheaval? These
questions go to the heart of social scientists soul-searching as to
whether they are indeed engaged in science. The author pursues
these questions through in-depth examination of various theoretical
programmes currently influential in social science, including
feminist social science, rational choice theory, network analysis
and others.
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.
Theories of Civil Violence provides both a new look at the origins
of civil upheaval and a critical examination of society theory
itself. James B. Rule develops an incisive historical analysis of
theories of civil violence, beginning with the classic views of
Hobbes and Marx and continuing to those of Gurr, Tilly, and other
present-day thinkers. He then exploits this overview to yield
conclusions on the nature of and prospects for theoretical
understanding of social and political life in general. This title
is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate
the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing
on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,
peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1988.
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