Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

by Helen Nissenbaum

Book Overview

Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself--most people understand that this is crucial to social life --but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information.

Arguing that privacy concerns should not be limited solely to concern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804752370
• ISBN13: 9780804752374
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Stanford Law Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"