Privacy

Martin Dowding

doi:10.5771/9780810881037

Summary

Matters of privacy have profoundly changed since electronic storage of information has become the norm. Consequently, policy-makers and legislators are trying to keep up with privacy challenges in the workplace, in healthcare, in surveillance, and on social networking sites. With Privacy: Defending an Illusion, Martin Dowding fills a very important gap in policy analysis and the teaching of privacy issues at the senior undergraduate and early graduate student level.

In the first section of this book, Dowding recounts historical interpretations of privacy in a wide variety of socio-cultural circumstances. In the second section, the author addresses how information and communication technologies have changed our conceptions about privacy and redirected our focus from keeping information private to sharing it with many more people than we would have even a few years ago. Dowding also examines a variety of possible options for the future of privacy. The appendixes include seminal readings on relevant topics that should encourage debates about the nature of privacy and its problems. Overall, this book provides a solid background for defining and understanding privacy in a wide variety of contexts.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-8102-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8108-8103-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 124
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction No access
Chapter 01. Privacy: From Space to Cyberspace No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 02. A Contrast between Pre-ICT Privacy and Today’s ICT Realities No access Pages 11 - 18
Chapter 03. Did ICT Create a New Social Norm? No access Pages 19 - 30
Chapter 04. Privacy Legislation and Policy: Illusory Protection? No access Pages 31 - 42
Chapter 05. Surveillance: Privacy Denied No access Pages 43 - 52
Chapter 06. Privacy in the Workplace No access Pages 53 - 62
Chapter 07. Privacy and Health No access Pages 63 - 72
Chapter 08. Social Networking: The Facebook Casebook No access Pages 73 - 82
Chapter 09. Conclusion: Does Privacy Have a Future? No access Pages 83 - 86
Appendix A: Canadian Standards Association Principles in Summary No access Pages 87 - 88
Appendix B: Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy at Wilfrid Laurier University, Office of the Privacy Coordinator No access Pages 89 - 90
Appendix C: Wilfrid Laurier University: Notice of Collection and Examples of Use or Disclosure No access Pages 91 - 94
Appendix D: The Difference between Security and Privacy No access Pages 95 - 96
Appendix E: Ponemon Institute / Information Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Corporate Privacy Comparisons No access Pages 97 - 98
Appendix F: Drug-Free Workplace Policy No access Pages 99 - 104
Appendix G: Pros and Cons of Drug Testing in Schools No access Pages 105 - 108
Appendix H: URL Addresses for the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Fellow Petitioners to the Federal Trade Commission “In the Matter of Facebook, Inc.” No access Pages 109 - 110
Further Reading No access Pages 111 - 114
Index No access Pages 115 - 122
About the Author No access Pages 123 - 124