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Why Privacy Matters
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Why Privacy Matters

Oxford UP, 2021 Mehr


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Asserting that “privacy is dead” is popular, but it overstates the reality. Today’s computerized world generates digital data about each person, and corporations and governments widely collect, analyze and use it. Even so, people care about their privacy and often manage to keep many facets of their individual lives private. Author Neil Richards, a privacy law professor, explores how society could control and regulate the way various parties obtain, retain and disseminate personal information, and whether there is a correct path – given, as the professor explains, that privacy is ultimately about power. 

Take-Aways

  • Privacy is measured by the extent to which human information remains unknown and unused.
  • Privacy focuses on protecting human information, including regulating how governments and businesses use it.
  • Rules regulating the use of human information are important and unavoidable.

About the Author

Neil Richards, the Koch Distinguished Professor at Washington University School of Lawco-directs the Cordell Institute for Policy in Medicine & Law.


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    J. M. 5 months ago
    Extremely helpful. I'm buying the book soon and hope to interview Neil Richards on my podcast. Thank you for sharing this summary.

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