| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 123 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-113) and index. |
| Contents |
From space to cyberspace -- A contrast between pre-ICT privacy and today's ICT realities -- Did ICT create a new social norm? -- Privacy legislation & policy : "illusory protection" -- Surveillance & privacy denied -- Privacy in the workplace -- Privacy and health -- Social networking. |
| Summary |
Matters of privacy have profoundly changed since electronic storage of information has become the norm. Consequently, policy-makers and legislators are trying to keep up with privacy challenges in the workplace, in healthcare, in surveillance, and on social networking sites. With Privacy: Defending an Illusion, Martin Dowding fills a very important gap in policy analysis and the teaching of privacy issues at the senior undergraduate and early graduate student level. In the first section of this book, Dowding recounts historical interpretations of privacy in a wide variety of socio-cultural ci. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Privacy, Right of.
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Privacy, Right of. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dowding, Martin Ridley. Privacy. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, ©2011 9780810881020 (DLC) 2011006016 (OCoLC)703621516 |
| ISBN |
9780810881037 (electronic book) |
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0810881039 (electronic book) |
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9780810881020 |
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0810881020 |
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