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The Politics of Personal Information : Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany /

In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization, the expansion, bureaucratization, and computerization o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frohman, Larry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Population Registration, Power, and Privacy
  • Chapter 1 The Federal Population Registration Law, Administrative Power, and the Politicization of Privacy
  • Part II. Negotiating Communicative Norms in the Computer Age
  • Chapter 2 Rethinking Privacy in the Age of the Mainframe
  • Chapter 3 The Legislative Path to the Federal Privacy Protection Law, 1970-77
  • Chapter 4 "Only Sheep Let Themselves Be Counted"
  • Chapter 5 Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire
  • Part III. The Precautionary Turn
  • Chapter 6 Paper, Power, and Policing, 1948-72
  • Chapter 7 The Quest for Security and the Meaning of Privacy
  • Chapter 8 Mapping the Radical Milieu
  • Chapter 9 The Reform of Police Law
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index