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Privacy and the Information Age

Gutwirth, SergeCasert, Raf(Translated by)
Part of the Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture series
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Serge Gutwirth advances the intriguing thesis that privacy is in fact the safeguard of personal freedom - the safeguard of the individual's freedom to decide who she or he is, what she or he does, and who knows about it.

Any restriction on privacy thus means an infringement of personal freedom. And it's exactly this freedom that plays an essential role in every democracy.

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0742517462 / 9780742517462
Paperback / softback
323.448
22/12/2001
United States
English
160 p.
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