Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape

By Philip E. Agre

Book Overview

Revised

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262511010
• ISBN13: 9780262511018
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

More balanced view than many treatments.

From Virginia Postrel's pollyannish embrace of technology to Reg Whitakers musings of government devolving power (the state withering away-an old notion yet to be validated by experience) to Jerry Furland's utterly terrifying vision, this latest entry, "Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape" at least allows that the jury is still out on this issue. Except for Furland, ("Transfer-the end of the beginning")each falls short of addressing what one can "DO" with this new technology and actually provides a credible blueprint in novel form. I recommend each of these authors, but I put my money on Furland being right.