Privacy in a Cyber Age: Policy and Practice [Paperback]

This book lays out the foundation of a privacy doctrine suitable to the cyber age. It limits the volume, sensitivity, and secondary analysis that can be carried out. In studying these matters, the book examines the privacy issues raised by the NSA, publication of state secrets, and DNA usage.1. Preface 2. Part I. A Cyber Age Privacy Doctrine 3. Part II. More Coherent, Less Subjective, and Operational 4. Part III. Eight Nails into Katz's Coffin 5. Part IV. Privacy: A Personal Sphere, Not Home-Bound 6. Part V. The Privacy Merchants 7. Part VI. The Private Sector: A Reluctant Partner in Cybersecurity 8. Part VII. Liberal Communitarian Approach to Privacy and Security 9. Part VIII. The Right to Be Forgotten 10. Part IX. Balancing National Security and Individual Rights 11. Part X. DNA Searches: A Liberal Communitarian Approach 12. Acknowledgments

Amitai Etzioni starts his analysis of privacy in the age of big data with an unquestionable truth: the ease with which personal data can be collected, stored, and analyzed will transform our right to privacy. This volume is a valiant effort to define privacy in a way that starts with that truth. While I could hardly disagree more with his conclusions, the book is nonetheless a bracing and original look at a field that has been dominated by crypto-Luddites and adolescent fantasists. - Stewart Baker, a partner of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, USA; former first Assistant Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, USA, and the author of Skating on Stilts (2010)

In Privacy in a Cyber Age, Amitai Etzioni opens a new digital page in the baffled privacy discourse, and insists that America rethinks the concept of privacy. Etzioni scrutinizes privacy law and practice through a liberal communitarian lens, calling for a careful balance of individual rights and the common good. The book weaves together theory and practice, law and society, resulting in a rich, thoughtful a much-needed cyber-age privacy doctrinl“W