The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

Daniel J Solove

Published by New York University Press 2004

The Digital Person

Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

Daniel J Solove

Volume 1 in the series Ex Machina: Law, Technology, and Society

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814708965.001.0001

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About this book

Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, market products, and make a wide variety of decisions affecting our lives. The creation and use of these databases—which Daniel J. Solove calls “digital dossiers”—has thus far gone largely unchecked. In this startling account of new technologies for gathering and using personal data, Solove explains why digital dossiers pose a grave threat to our privacy.
The Digital Person sets forth a new understanding of what privacy is, one that is appropriate for the new challenges of the Information Age. Solove recommends how the law can be reformed to simultaneously protect our privacy and allow us to enjoy the benefits of our increasingly digital world.
The first volume in the series EX MACHINA: LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY

Author / Editor information

Solove Daniel J :

Daniel J. Solove is Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is the co-author of Information Privacy Law.

Reviews

Solove . . . truly understands the intersection of law and technology. This book is a fascinating journey into the almost surreal ways personal information is hoarded, used, and abused in the digital age.

Anyone concerned with preserving privacy against technology's growing intrusiveness will find this book enlightening.

Jeffrey Rosen,author of The Unwanted Gaze and The Naked Crowd:
Daniel Solove is one of the most energetic and creative scholars writing about privacy today. The Digital Person is an important contribution to the privacy debate, and Soloves discussion of the harms of what he calls 'digital dossiers' is invaluable.

This comprehensive analysis of privacy in the information age challenges traditional assumptions that breeches of privacy through the development of electronic dossiers involve the invasion of one’s private space.

The Digital Person challenges the existing ways in which law and legal theory approach the social, political, and legal implications of the collection and use of personal information in computer databases. Soloves book is ambitious, and represents the most important publication in the field of information privacy law for some years.

Solove ultimately is no & chicken little but an idealist of the best sort, concluding a positive role for law in the problem of privacy. Whether the world will leave Orwell and Kafka behind and evolve into Solove remains to be seen, but herein is offered a plan to achieve that objective.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Computer Databases
2 The Rise of the Digital Dossier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3 Kafka and Orwell Reconceptualizing Information Privacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
4 The Problems of Information Privacy Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
5 The Limits of Market-Based Solutions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
6 Architecture and the Protection of Privacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
II Public Records
7 The Problem of Public Records Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
8 Access and Aggregation Rethinking Privacy and Transparency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
III Government Access
9 Government Information Gathering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10 The Fourth Amendment, Records, and Privacy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
11 Reconstructing the Architecture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
12 Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Keywords: pathbreaking; account; threat; privacy; todays; digitized; world

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Published: December 1, 2004
ISBN: 9780814708965