Overview
- Offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the modern world
- Explores core concepts of privacy as well as its application to important, everyday issues
- Enables greater engagement with difficult questions about privacy
Part of the book series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (AMIN, volume 8)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Privacy: Core Concepts
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Personal Information Privacy
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Privacy and Technology
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Privacy in Different Contexts: Work, Sex, Family, and Crime
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Keywords
- Personal information privacy
- Physical privacy
- Workplace privacy
- Right to be forgotten
- Children’s rights to privacy
- Privacy torts
- Constitutional privacy rights
- Digital privacy
- Nature and Value of Privacy
- Privacy, Public Space, and Personal Information
- Privacy and Technology
- Parents, Privacy, and Facebook
- Digitizing Privacy
- Reasonable Expectation of Privacy and the Private/Public Split
- Privacy and Religious Exemptions
About this book
This book offers a comprehensive investigation of privacy in the modern world. It collects 16 papers that look at this essential topic from many facets, from the personal to the technological, from the philosophical to the legal. The contributors examine such issues as the value of privacy protection, the violation of spreading personal falsehoods, the digital rights of children, an individual's right to be forgotten from internet search engines, and more.
The organization of the volume helps provide a nuanced understanding of this often controversial topic. Coverage starts with key concepts before moving on to explore personal information privacy and the impact of new technologies. Next, the papers consider privacy in different contexts. These include work, sex, family, crime, and religion. This structure enables greater engagement with the difficult questions about privacy. Readers will gain deep insight into the core concepts of privacy as well as its application to everyday life.
This interdisciplinary volume brings together an international team of scholars. They provide a broad combination of expertise in law, philosophy, and political science. Overall, this thought-provoking examination will appeal to interested readers in both academia and practice.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mark C. Navin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University (Rochester, MI). His recent work concerns public health ethics, bioethics, and food justice. His book, Values and Vaccine Refusal: Hard Questions in Ethics, Epistemology and Health Care, was published by Routledge in 2016. He is the Executive Director of AMINTAPHIL.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Core Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Privacy
Editors: Ann E. Cudd, Mark C. Navin
Series Title: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74639-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74638-8Published: 11 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09042-5Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74639-5Published: 03 April 2018
Series ISSN: 1873-877X
Series E-ISSN: 2351-9851
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 265
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Political Philosophy