Understanding Privacy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 14, 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780674027725
Subjects: Jurisprudence & General Issues; Mental Health; Privacy; Sociology - General; Law / Privacy; Law; Psychology
Description: "In this concise and lucid book, Daniel J. Solove offers a comprehensive overview of the difficulties involved in discussions of privacy and ultimately provides a provocative resolution. He argues that no single definition can be workable, but rather that there are multiple forms of privacy, related to one another by family resemblances. His theory bridges cultural differences and addresses historical changes in views on privacy. Drawing on a broad array of interdisciplinary sources, Solove sets forth a framework for understanding privacy that provides clear, practical guidance for engaging with relevant issues."--Jacket.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: ix; label: 1
title: Privacy: A Concept in Disarray
pagenum: 1; label: Privacy: An Issue of Global Concern
title: 2; label: Technology and the Rising Concern over Privacy
title: 4; label: The Concept of Privacy
title: 6; label: A New Theory of Privacy
title: 8; label: 2
title: Theories of Privacy and Their Shortcomings
pagenum: 12; label: Methods of Conceptualizing
title: 13; label: Conceptions of Privacy
title: 14; label: Can Privacy Be Conceptualized?
title: 37; label: 3
title: Reconstructing Privacy
pagenum: 39; label: Method
title: 41; label: Generality
title: 46; label: Variability
title: 50; label: Focus
title: 67; label: 4
title: The Value of Privacy
pagenum: 78; label: The Virtues and Vices of Privacy
title: 79; label: Theories of the Valuation of Privacy
title: 84; label: The Social Value of Privacy
title: 89; label: Privacy's Pluralistic Value
title: 98; label: 5
title: A Taxonomy of Privacy
pagenum: 101; label: Information Collection
title: 106; label: Information Processing
title: 117; label: Information Dissemination
title: 136; label: Invasion
title: 161; label: 6
title: Privacy: A New Understanding
pagenum: 171; label: The Nature of Privacy Problems
title: 174; label: Privacy and Cultural Difference
title: 183; label: The Benefits of a Pluralistic Conception of Privacy
title: 187; label: The Future of Privacy
title: 196; label: Notes
title: 199; label: Index
title: 247