Privacy in the Information Age
"Professor Fred H. Cate does a remarkable job of outlining the status quo between the continents and exploring the varying approaches to dealing with privacy concerns.... Law libraries should buy this book because it is a comprehensive overview of the privacy concerns in the electronic society." —Mary Elizabeth Hadad, Suffolk University Law and Technology Program,Bimonthly Review of Law Books, 3/1/2001"Privacy in the Information Age is a breath of fresh air in a debate that heretofore has viewed privacy in America the way George Kennan once viewed the Soviets, as something desperately in need of government containment. Hopefully Fred Cate's book will sober those who would erect expensive, intrusive European-like bureaucracies to do a job that consumer freedom and open markets will always do better." —Duncan MacDonald, General Counsel, Citibank Bankcards"No new inventaion arrives without a mixture of advantages and disadvantages. New electronic information networks combine immediate blessings with the risk of a long-term loss of privacy. Fred Cate, one of our nation's most talented young legal scholars, penetrates this dilemma and suggests ways to balance the good and bad in our information revolution." —Newton N. Minow, Sidney and Austin, and Former Chair, Federal Communications Commission