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Taking privacy seriously : how to create the rights we need while we still have something to protect / James B. Rule

Author
Rule, James B., 1943-
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Physical Description
xxvi, 298 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents
Introduction : careering down a road hardly anyone wants to take -- Don't blame technology -- Ban personal-decision systems that violate core values -- Require consent for disclosure -- Make personal-data use minimal, transparent, and trackable -- Institute a right to resign from personal-decision systems -- Create a universal property right over commercialization of data on oneself -- Conclusions -- The future -- Appendix 1 : The eleven reforms -- Appendix 2 : International privacy affirmations vs. privacy setbacks, 1983-2019.
Summary
"Taking Privacy Seriously offers both a concise, hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today's privacy-eroding practices and a roadmap for creating robust new individual rights over our personal data. Rule proposes eleven key reforms in the control and use of personal information, all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data-hungry corporate and government institutions. What a privacy-deprived America needs most is not less technology, Rule argues, but profound political realignment. His eleven proposed reforms range from launching a major public-works investment consisting of a series of websites publicly documenting the personal data uses of nearly all government and private institutions; to instating a right for any citizen to withdraw from any personal data system not required by law; to creating a universal property right over commercial exploitation of data on oneself--so that no company or other organization could profit from use or sale of such data without permission. Succinct and compelling, Taking Privacy Seriously explains how we can refashion information technologies so that they serve human needs, not the other way around"--
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9780520382626 hardcover
0520382625 hardcover
9780520401587 paperback
0520401581 paperback
9780520382633 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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