Privacy : what everyone needs to know / Leslie P. Francis, John G. Francis.
2017
KF1262 .F73 2017 (Mapit)
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Privacy : what everyone needs to know / Leslie P. Francis, John G. Francis.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Description
xvii, 330 pages ; 21 cm.
Series
What everyone needs to know.
Formatted Contents Note
Conceptualizing Privacy
Protecting Personal Information: Basic Issues
Privacy and Health Information
Privacy and Educational Information
Financial Information, Credit Information, and Information for Employers
Law Enforcement Information: Police, Victims, and Suspects
Privacy within and beyond Families and Groups
Privacy on the Internet and in Social Media: The Worldwide and Interactive Internet
Privacy and Security
Privacy and Democracy.
Protecting Personal Information: Basic Issues
Privacy and Health Information
Privacy and Educational Information
Financial Information, Credit Information, and Information for Employers
Law Enforcement Information: Police, Victims, and Suspects
Privacy within and beyond Families and Groups
Privacy on the Internet and in Social Media: The Worldwide and Interactive Internet
Privacy and Security
Privacy and Democracy.
Summary
We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There is an abstract idea of privacy that we invoke, and, concrete rules about our privacy that we can point to if we are pressed. Nonetheless, too often we are uneasily reminded that our privacy is not invulnerable-the data tracks we leave through our health information, the internet and social media, financial and credit information, personal relationships, and public lives make us continuously prey to identity theft, hacking, and even government surveillance. A great deal is at stake for individuals, groups, and societies if privacy is misunderstood, misdirected, or misused. Popular understanding of privacy doesn't match the heat the concept generates. With a host of cultural differences as to how privacy is understood globally and in different religions, and with ceaseless technological advancements, it is an increasingly complex topic. In this clear and accessible book, Leslie and John G. Francis guide us to an understanding of what privacy can mean and why it is so important. Drawing upon their extensive joint expertise in law, philosophy, political science, regulatory policy, and bioethics, they parse the consequences of the forfeiture, however great or small, of one's privacy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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STA
Available in Other Form
Online version: Francis, John G., 1943- Privacy. New York : Oxford University Press, 2017
Call Number
KF1262 .F73 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780190612252 paperback ; alkaline paper
0190612258 paperback ; alkaline paper
9780190612269 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0190612266 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780190612276 (updf)
0190612258 paperback ; alkaline paper
9780190612269 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0190612266 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780190612276 (updf)
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