PRIVACY REVISITED: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE

Krotoszynki, Ronald Jr.

ISBN 10: 0199315213 / ISBN 13: 9780199315215

Edité par Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford & New York, 2016

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Octavo, 292 pages. In Very Good condition with a very good dust jacket. Red and grey spine with black and red lettering. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. Text block clean. Note: Shelved in Netdesk Column F, ND-F. 1377603. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: PRIVACY REVISITED: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE
• Éditeur: Oxford Univeristy Press, Oxford & New York
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0199315213
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780199315215
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Politics, Government, and Law

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Synopsis

Rapid technological change, the advent of Big Data, and the creation of society-wide government surveillance programs have transformed the accessibility of highly personal information; these developments have highlighted the ambiguous treatment of privacy and personal intimacy. National legal systems vouchsafe and define "privacy," and its first cousin "dignity," in different ways that reflect local legal and cultural values. Yet, in an increasingly globalized world, purely local protection of privacy interests may prove insufficient to safeguard effectively fundamental autonomy interests - interests that lie at the core of self-definition, personal autonomy, and freedom.

Privacy Revisited articulates the legal meanings of privacy and dignity through the lens of comparative law, and argues that the concept of privacy requires a more systematic approach if it is to be useful in framing and protecting certain fundamental autonomy interests. The book begins by providing relevant, and reasonably detailed, information about both the substantive and procedural protections of privacy/dignity in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and among Council of Europe member states. Second, the book explores the inherent tension between affording significant legal protection to the right of privacy (or human dignity) and securing expressive freedoms, notably including the freedom of speech and of the press. The author then posits that the protection of privacy helps to illuminate some of the underlying social and political values that lead the U.S. to fail to protect privacy as reliably or as comprehensively as other liberal democracies. Finally, the book establishes that although privacy and speech come into conflict with some regularity, it is both useful and necessary to start thinking about the important ways in which both rights are integral to the maintenance of democratic self-government.

À propos de l'auteur

Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr. is the John S. Stone Chair, Director of Faculty Research, and Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He clerked for the Honorable Frank M. Johnson, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and was an associate with Covington & Burling. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Alabama School of Law, Professor Krotoszynski served on the law faculties of Washington and Lee University and the Indiana University McKinney School of Law.