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This page deals with other books about privacy in the
online environment.
policy development
The Electronic Privacy Papers
edited by Bruce Schneier &
David Banisar (San Francisco, Wiley 97) is a unique compilation of key
US government and private sector documents about encryption, privacy
policy, law enforcement and other matters. Schneier's Secrets &
Lies: Digital Security In A Networked World (New York,
Wiley 00) is strongly recommended.
For a personal perspective on
how US cyber policy is developed (often on the hop, at great expense,
with much noise from the media) you could do worse than turn to Cyber
Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age (New York, Times
1998), a memoir by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF)
Mike Godwin.
Whitfield Diffie & Susan Landau offer a more analytical study in the
excellent Privacy on the Line: The
Politics of Wiretapping & Encryption (Cambridge, MIT Press 99). Diffie is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography.
practice
Regrettably, much of the writing about
privacy in newspapers and magazines is anecdotal. H Jeff Smith's Managing
Privacy: Information Technology & Corporate America (Chapel
Hill, Uni of North Carolina Press 95) largely predates the Web but is of
value for its detailed exploration of how many US businesses develop
privacy policies and - more importantly - the extent to which those
policies are implemented.
Databanks in a Free Society: Computers,
Record-keeping & Privacy. (New York, Quadrangle
72) by Alan Westin & Michael Baker) is of
similar value in understanding current US privacy debates.
Who Owns Information? From Privacy
to Public Access by Anne Wells
Branscomb (New York, Basic Books 94) is an overview of the
interrelationship between privacy, as viewed in the US, and intellectual
property - touching on electronic mail, medical records, government
data, credit records and other information. Raymond Wacks' drier Personal
Information: Privacy & the Law (Oxford, Oxford Uni
Press 89) and Privacy & Loyalty (Oxford,
Clarendon 98) edited by Peter Birks offer a UK perspective.
There's a more detailed
exploration of particular issues in David Brin's thoughtful The
Transparent Society (Reading, Perseus Books 98), which highlights
the notion of reciprocal transparency, ie government and business
sharing with citizens the information collected about them.
Who Knows? Safeguarding Your Privacy
In A Networked World by Ann
Cavoukian and Don Tapscott (New York, McGraw-Hill 97) is one of
Tapscott's better books, embracing principles and legislation, workplace
and medical privacy, the technologies of surveillance and a call to
action.
Gavin Skok provides a useful
introduction to questions about 'clickstreams' (ie tracking how you've
surfed the Web) in his Establishing A Legitimate Expectation of
Privacy In Clickstream Data article
for the May 00 issue of the Michigan Telecommunications & Technology
Law Review.
Laura Gurak's Persuasion and Privacy
in Cyberspace (New Haven, Yale Uni Press 97) is an account, albeit
marred by deconstructivist jargon, of citizen campaigns against Lotus
MarketPlace and the Clipper Chip, two US proposals with serious privacy
implications.
A perspective on the latter proposal is provided by
Dorothy Denning's excellent Information Warfare & Security (Reading,
Addison-Wesley 99), along with papers at her site.
communitarianism
Amitai Etzioni
offers fashionable but generally unconvincing communitarian arguments in The Limits of Privacy
(New York, Basic Books 99), summarized in his 1999 article
Less Privacy Is Good For Us (and You).
There's a more
thoughtful treatment of philosophies and legal developments in Judith
Decew's In Pursuit of Privacy: Law, Ethics & the Rise of
Technology (Ithaca, Cornell Uni Press 97).
David Lyon's The Electronic Eye: The Rise of the
Surveillance Society (Minneapolis, Uni of Minnesota
Press 94) is a useful introduction to the US literature on
pervasive surveillance; more insightful than Michel
Foucault's The Eye of Power (in Power/Knowledge:
Selected Interviews and Other Writings, New York,
Pantheon 1980) and other mannerist tracts.
John Torpey's The Invention of the
Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship & the State (Cambridge,
Cambridge Uni Press 00) is a useful introduction to both the bits of
paper and broader questions of 'identity' in modern societies.
government
The File: A Personal History
(London, HarperCollins 97) is Timothy Garton Ash's memoir of living in
the East German surveillance state.
Among the wide range of literature on
government secrecy and what used to be called 'national information
policy' we've singled out the short essays in A Culture of Secrecy: The Government versus the People's Right To Know (Lawrence, Uni
Press of Kansas 98) and Greg Terrill's recent Secrecy and Openness:
The Federal Government From Menzies to Whitlam and Beyond
(Melbourne, Melbourne Uni Press 00), embracing archives and freedom of
information law and policy.
We've explored information policy and
government privacy/secrecy in the final part
of our censorship guide.
In the European Union the European
Commission's Data
Directive was the
subject of None of Your Business: World Data Flows, Electronic
Commerce & the European Privacy Directive (Washington, Brookings
98) by Peter Swire & Robert Litan.
Susan Gindin's 1998 San Diego Law Review paper
Lost & Found in Cyberspace: Informational Privacy in the Age
of the Internet surveyed privacy-invasive
technologies and legal remedies.
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