Privacy in America
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by William Aspray, Philip Doty
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780810881105; 9780810881112
Subjects: Law and legislation; Congresses; Right of Privacy; Data protection
Description: "This collection of essays represents original and interdisciplinary work in which respected scholars address a number of privacy issues. They include the devlopment and deployment of governmental and private-sector technologies that can pose serious compromises to the privacy of individuals and groups; information--and communication-- system designs that pose threats to privacy; the management of private concerns (child care, job leave, and identity) as public issues amenable to political action and shared awareness; and the fundamental asymmetry of power that exists between individuals and small groups on the one hand and large governmental and corporate entities on the other. Organized into three sections--law and policy; information technology; and information studies, history, and sociology--Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives will be useful to scholars, practitioners, and students in a variety of fields, including information science, library science, and information systems"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "This book originated in a series of conversations ... at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin" -- Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Deprived, protected, empowered: privacy's roles in public life / Patricia Boling; title: Privacy torts : unreliable remedies for lgbt plaintiffs / Anita Allen; title: Toward identity rights beyond privacy / Andrew Clement; title: Privacy-invasive technologies and their origins / James Harper; title: Doing the DPI dance : assessing the privacy impact of deep packet inspection / Alissa Cooper; title: Future biometric systems and privacy / Shimon Modi and Gene Spafford; title: Emerging privacy and security concerns for digital wallet deployment / Andrew Harris, Frank Park, Seymour Goodman, and Patrick Traynor; title: Privacy, reading, and trying out identity : the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and technological determinism / Philip Doty; title: Privacy in time of American war / Gesse Stark-Smith, Craig Blaha, and William Aspray; title: Turtles, firewalls, scarlet letters and vacuum cleaners : rules about personal information / Gary Marx.