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On Privacy

ContributorsLever, Annabelle
PublisherNew York : Routledge
Collection
  • Thinking in Action
Publication date2012
Abstract

This book explores the Janus-faced features of privacy, and looks at their implications for the control of personal information, for sexual and reproductive freedom, and for democratic politics. It asks what, if anything, is wrong with asking women to get licenses in order to get pregnant and have children, given that pregnancy and childbirth can seriously damage your health. It considers whether employers should be able to monitor the friendships and financial affairs of employees, and whether we are entitled to know whenever someone rich, famous or powerful has cancer, or has had an adulterous affair. It considers whether we are entitled to privacy in public and, if so, what this might mean for the use of CCTV cameras, the treatment of the homeless, and the provision of public facilities such as parks, libraries and lavatories. Above all, the books seeks to understand whether and, if so, why privacy is valuable in a democratic society, and what implications privacy has for the ways we see and treat each other. The ideas about privacy we have inherited from the past are marked by beliefs about what is desirable, realistic and possible which predate democratic government and, in some cases, predate constitutional government as well. Hence, this book argues, although privacy is an important democratic value, we can only realise that value if we use democratic ideas about the freedom, equality, security and rights of individuals to guide our understanding of privacy.

Keywords
  • Privacy
  • Equality
  • Democracy
  • Rights
  • Duties
  • Values
  • Secret ballot
  • Family
  • Employee privacy
  • Citizenship
  • Freedom of expression
  • Personal information
  • Personal choice
  • Personal association
  • Personal expression
Citation (ISO format)
LEVER, Annabelle. On Privacy. New York : Routledge, 2012. (Thinking in Action)
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Identifiers
  • PID : unige:20358
ISBN97-0415395700
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