Other books remind us of what we already know—that privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step plan to create a significantly more private and authentically democratic world.
Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a concise, hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today's privacy-eroding practices and a roadmap for creating robust new individual rights over our personal data. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information, all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data-hungry corporate and government institutions.
What a privacy-deprived America needs most is not less technology, Rule argues, but profound political realignment. His eleven proposed reforms range from launching a major public-works investment consisting of a series of websites publicly documenting the personal data uses of nearly all government and private institutions; to instating a right for any citizen to withdraw from any personal data system not required by law; to creating a universal property right over commercial exploitation of data on oneself—so that no company or other organization could profit from use or sale of such data without permission. Succinct and compelling, Taking Privacy Seriously explains how we can refashion information technologies so that they serve human needs, not the other way around.
By:
James B. Rule
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780520382626
ISBN 10: 0520382625
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 23 April 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Careering Down a Road Hardly Anyone Wants to Take 1 Don’t Blame Technology 2 Ban Personal-Decision Systems That Violate Core Values 3 Require Consent for Disclosure 4 Make Personal-Data Use Minimal, Transparent, and Trackable 5 Institute a Right to Resign from Personal-Decision Systems 6 Create a Universal Property Right over Commercialization of Data on Oneself 7 Conclusions 8 The Future Appendix 1: The Eleven Reforms Appendix 2: International Privacy Affirmations vs. Privacy Setbacks, 1983–2019 Index
James B. Rule has been writing about struggles over the control of personal information since his first book, Private Lives and Public Surveillance.
