Privacy in America

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by William Aspray, Philip Doty

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Publication date:

11 July 2011

Length of book:

322 pages

Publisher

Scarecrow Press

ISBN-13: 9780810881112

In this collection of essays that represent original and interdisciplinary work, respected scholars address a number of privacy issues. These include how governmental and private sectors develop and deploy technologies that can pose serious compromises to the privacy of individuals and groups; how information and communication system designs pose threats to privacy; how we manage 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.

Arranged in 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.
The chapters are all well-written, thought-provoking pieces with extensive lists of references. It includes an adequate index. This work is recommended as stimulating reading for postgraduate students interested in privacy from an American perspective.