The Seven Veils of Privacy : How Our Debates about Privacy Conceal its Nature

O'Hara, Kieron

Manchester University Press（2023/07発売）

Manchester University Press（2023/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 384 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526163028
• DDC分類 155.92

Full Description

Privacy is one of the most contested concepts of our time. This book sets out a rigorous and comprehensive framework for understanding debates about privacy and our rights to it.

Much of the conflict around privacy comes from a failure to recognise divergent perspectives. Some people argue about human rights, some about social conventions, others about individual preferences and still others about information and data processing. As a result, 'privacy' has become the focus of competing definitions, leading some to denounce the 'disarray' in the field.

But as this book shows, disagreements about the role and value of privacy obscure a large amount of agreement on the topic. Privacy is not a technical term of law, cybersecurity or sociology, but a word in common use that adequately expresses a few simple and related ideas.

Contents

Introduction: the goal of this book
Part I: A concept in disarray?
Part II: Explaining the disarray
Part III: A framework for privacy discourses
Part IV: Commentary on the framework
Part V: Topics in privacy studies
Conclusion: privacy in the time of COVID
Index