Taking Privacy Seriously: How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect

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James B. Rule

Taking Privacy Seriously

How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect

James B. Rule

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University of California Press
31 May 2024

Social issues & processes; Ethical issues & debates; Impact of science & technology on society

Other books remind us of what we already know—that privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step plan to create a significantly more private and authentically democratic world.

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.

By: James B. Rule
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520401587
ISBN 10: 0520401581
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 31 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

James B. Rule has been writing about struggles over the control of personal information since his first book, Private Lives and Public Surveillance.

Reviews for Taking Privacy Seriously: How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect

"""Taking Privacy Seriously examines the origins of today’s privacy-eroding practices. The 11 key reforms he outlines are intended to help redress the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data-hungry corporate and government institutions."" * The Berkeleyside *"