Legislating Privacy : Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy /

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While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: comput...

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Autor principal: Regan, Priscilla M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wiretapping > Government policy.
Privacy, Right of.
Lie detectors and detection > Government policy.
Computer security > Government policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Detecteurs de mensonge > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Écoute electronique > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Securite informatique > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Lie detectors and detection > Government policy > United States.
Wiretapping > Government policy > United States.
Computer security > Government policy > United States.
Privacy, Right of > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized databases, wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues, legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting those with a vested interest in new technology over those advocating privacy protection. ###Legislating Privacy# explores the dynamics of congressional poli.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780807837795

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