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Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Raymond Wacks
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Description for Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, concerns about individual privacy have significantly increased. The Internet generates risks, unimagined even twenty years ago, to the security and integrity of information in all its forms. The manner in which information is collected, stored, exchanged, and used has changed forever; and with it, the character of the threats to individual privacy. The scale of accessible private ... Read more
Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere, concerns about individual privacy have significantly increased. The Internet generates risks, unimagined even twenty years ago, to the security and integrity of information in all its forms. The manner in which information is collected, stored, exchanged, and used has changed forever; and with it, the character of the threats to individual privacy. The scale of accessible private ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198725947
SKU
V9780198725947
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About Raymond Wacks
Raymond Wacks is a leading international authority on privacy. For almost four decades he has published numerous books and articles on the subject including The Protection of Privacy (Sweet & Maxwell, 1980); Personal Information: Privacy and the Law, (OUP, 1989); Privacy, a two-volume collection of essays (Dartmouth and New York University Press, 1993), Privacy and Press Freedom (Blackstone, 1995), and ... Read more
Reviews for Privacy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Although physically small, this is a dense book stuffed with facts and arguments. It is to be read slowly and with consideration. And perhaps a degree of worry that Privacy is still so badly defined and addressed by legislation.
Concatenation, Peter Tyres
[T]here is, to our knowledge, no more erudite and persuasive an advocate for protecting privacy than ... Read more
Concatenation, Peter Tyres
[T]here is, to our knowledge, no more erudite and persuasive an advocate for protecting privacy than ... Read more