Legislating privacy: technology, social values, and public policy

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While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized databases, wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues, legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting those with a vested interest in new technology over tho…

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Full title :Legislating privacy : technology, social values, and public policy / Priscilla M. Regan.

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Publication Date:©1995.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of North Carolina Press
Place of Publication:Chapel Hill
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1995.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (xix, 310 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0585028001, 0807837792, 9780585028002, 9780807837795
oclc:on1183468989
LC Classification:JC596.2.U5
Dewey Decimal:323.44/8/0973

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Privacy, Technology, and Public Policy; 2 Privacy as a Philosophical and Legal Concept; 3 Privacy in American Society; 4 Information Privacy: Recording Our Transactions; 5 Communication Privacy: Transmitting Our Messages; 6 Psychological Privacy: Evaluating Our Thoughts; 7 Congress, Privacy, and Policy Decisions; 8 Privacy and the Common Good: Implications for Public Policy; Appendixes; Notes; Index;A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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