Privacy in the Information Age or miniAtlas of Global Development

Privacy in the Information Age

Author: Fred H Cat

For all the passion that surrounds discussions about privacy, and the recent attention devoted to electronic privacy, surprisingly little consensus exists about what privacy means, what values are served - or compromised - by extending further legal protection to privacy, what values are affected by existing and proposed measures designed to protect privacy, and what principles should undergird a sensitive balancing of those values. In this book, Fred H. Cate addresses these critical issues in the context of computerized information. He provides an overview of the technologies that are provoking the current privacy debate and discusses the range of legal issues that these technologies raise. He examines the central elements that make up the definition of privacy and the values served, and liabilities incurred, by each of those components. Separate chapters address the regulation of privacy in Europe and the United States. The final chapter identifies principles for protecting information privacy. The principles recognize the significance of individual and collective nongovernmental action, the limited role for privacy laws and government enforcement of those laws, and the ultimate goal of establishing multinational principles for protecting information privacy.

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Addresses issues of privacy in the context of computerized information, overviewing technologies and legal issues. Defines elements of privacy and their values and costs, compares privacy regulations in Europe and the US, and identifies principles for protecting information privacy. Principles recognize the significance of individual and collective nongovernmental action, the limited role of government enforcement, and the ultimate goal of establishing multinational principles for protecting information privacy. Includes appendices of documents and guidelines. For general readers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Electronic Information Networks	5
3	Privacy	19
4	Privacy Regulation in Europe	32
5	Privacy Regulation in the United States: The Public Sector	49
6	Privacy Regulation in the United States: The Private Sector	80
7	Electronic Privacy in the Twenty-First Century	101
App. A	The European Union Directive	133
App. B	The Privacy Principles of the Information Infrastructure Task Force	177
App. C	General Discussion	195
	Bibliography	207
	Notes	215
	Index	241

Book review: Lei e Economia

miniAtlas of Global Development

Author: Staff of the World Bank

The miniAtlas of Global Development is an at-a-glance guide to the most pressing development issues facing the world. Based on the World Bank's authoritative compilation of development data as well as the World Bank Atlas and the Little Data Book, the miniAtlas provides colorful and easy-to-read world maps, tables, and graphs that highlight key social, economic, and environmental data for 208 countries and territories. Specially designed to show detailed information on a small scale, the miniAtlas is a useful introduction and quick reference to today's most urgent development challenges.