The digital person : technology and privacy in the information age - Solove, Daniel J., 1972- (New York : New York University Press, 2004)
Introduction ; The problems of digital dossiers ; Traditional conceptions of privacy ; Rethinking privacy ; A road map for this book -- pt. 1. Computer databases. -- The rise of the digital dossier ; A history of public-sector databases ; A history of private-sector databases ; Cyberspace and personal information -- Kafka and Orwell : reconceptualizing information privacy ; The importance of metaphor ; George Orwell's big brother ; Franz Kafka's trial ; Beyond the secrecy paradigm ; The aggregation effect ; Forms of dehumanization : databases and the Kafka metaphor -- The problems of information privacy law ; The privacy torts ; Constitutional law ; Statutory law ; The FTC and unfair and deceptive practices ; A world of radical transparency : freedom of information law ; The law of information privacy and its shortcomings -- The limits of market-based solutions ; Market-based solutions ; Misgivings of the market ; The value of personal information ; Too much paternalism? -- Architecture and the protection of privacy ; Two models for the protection of privacy ; Toward an architecture for privacy and the private sector ; Reconceptualizing identity theft ; Forging a new architecture -- pt. 2. Public records. -- The problem of public records ; Records from birth to death ; The impact of technology ; The regulation of public records -- Access and aggregation : rethinking privacy and transparency ; The tension between transparency and privacy ; Conceptualizing privacy and public records ; Transparency and privacy : reconciling the tension ; Public records and the First Amendment -- pt. 3. Government access. -- Government information gathering ; Third party records and the government ; Government, private-sector information flows ; The Orwellian dangers ; The Kafkaesque dangers ; Protecting privacy with architecture -- The Fourth Amendment, records, and privacy ; The architecture of the Fourth Amendment ; The shifting paradigms of Fourth Amendment privacy ; The new Olmstead ; The emerging statutory regime and its limits -- Reconstructing the architecture ; Scope : system of records ; Structure : mechanisms of oversight ; Regulating post-collection use of data ; Developing an architecture -- Conclusion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-265) and index.
Keywords: Data protection -- Law and legislation -- United States; Electronic records -- Access control -- United States; Public records -- Law and legislation -- United States; Government information -- United States; Privacy, Right of -- United States; Protection de l'information (Informatique) -- Droit; x -- z; Archives publiques -- Droit; x; z