The Handbook of Privacy Studies is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective. Privacy is in the news almost every day: mass surveillance by intelligence agencies, the use of social media data for commercial profit and political microtargeting, password hacks and identity theft, new data protection regimes, questionable reuse of medical data, and concerns about how algorithms shape the way we think and decide. This book offers interdisciplinary background information about these developments and explains how to understand and properly evaluate them. The book is set up for use in interdisciplinary educational programmes. Each chapter provides a structured analysis of the role of privacy within that discipline, its characteristics, themes and debates, as well as current challenges. Disciplinary approaches are presented in such a way that students and researchers from every scientific background can follow the argumentation and enrich their own understanding of privacy issues.
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Privacy from a Historical Perspective
- Sjoerd Keulen & Ronald Kroeze
- Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy
- 2. Privacy from a Legal Perspective
- Three Dimensions of Privacy
- 3. Privacy from an Ethical Perspective
- Nudging: A Very Short Guide
- 4. Privacy from an Economic Perspective
- Security, Privacy, and the Internet of Things (IoT)
- 5. Privacy from an Informatics Perspective
- Matthijs Koot and Cees de Laat
- Political Science and Privacy
- 6. Privacy from an Intelligence perspective
- Willemijn Aerdts & Giliam de Valk
- A privacy doctrine for the cyber age
- 7. Privacy from an Archival Perspective
- Medical Privacy: Where Deontology and Consequentialism Meet
- 8. Privacy from a medical perspective
- Privacy Law – on the Books and on the Ground
- Kenneth A. Bamberger & Deirdre K. Mulligan
- 9. Privacy from a Media Studies Perspective
- Jo Pierson & Ine Van Zeeland
- Diversity and Accountability in Data-Rich Markets
- 10. Privacy from a Communication Science Perspective
- Still Uneasy: a Life with Privacy
- 11. Privacy from an Anthropological Perspective
- About the Authors