Privacy

Eric Barendt

• Contents: Why Privacy is Valuable: Philosophical views on the value of privacy, Glenn Negley; Why privacy is important, James Rachels; Privacy, intimacy and personhood, Jeffrey H. Reiman; Property rights in personal information: an economic defense of privacy, Richard S. Murphy. The Definition and Scope of Privacy: A definition of privacy, Richard B. Parker; Privacy, morality and the law, W.A. Parent; Rereading Warren and Brandeis: privacy, property and appropriation, Robert C. Post; Driving to the panopticon: a philosophical exploration of the risks to privacy posed by the highway technology of the future, Jeffrey H. Reiman; Protecting privacy in an information age: the problem of privacy in public, Helen Nissenbaum. The Feminist Critique of Privacy: Feminism and the public/private distinction, Ruth Gavison; The violence of privacy, Elizabeth M. Schneider; Living with the risk of backfire: a response to feminist critiques of privacy and equality, Laura W. Stein. Privacy, the Media and Data Protection: The right to privacy revisited: privacy, news and social change, 1890-1990, Randall P. Bezanson; Privacy as a theoretical and practical concept, Peter Blume; Privacy in cyberspace: constructing a model of privacy for the electronic communications environment, Katrin Schatz Byford; Name index.

'Ashgate needs to be commended for putting together such a collection...'. Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association ’This work demonstrates how philosophy can enrich practical legal thinking. It is required reading for those desiring to bring forth a pedigree breed of privacy...’ New Law Journal