Privacy in Peril: How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience...

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James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

Privacy in Peril

How We Are Sacrificing a Fundamental Right in Exchange for Security and Convenience

James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program, University of California, Berkeley School of Law)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
26 January 2010

Sociology; Human rights; Security services; Privacy law; Privacy & data protection

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.

By: James B. Rule (Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program Senior Scholar at the Law and Society Program University of California Berkeley School of Law)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 231mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780195394368
ISBN 10: 0195394364
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 26 January 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James B. Rule is Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.