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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954362303321

Titolo

The glass consumer : life in a surveillance society / / edited by Susanne Lace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Policy, 2005

ISBN

9786611159825

9781447303831

1447303830

9781281159823

1281159824

9781847421272

184742127X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

LaceSusanne

Disciplina

323.448

Soggetti

Privacy, Right of

Freedom of information

Consumer profiling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Commissioned by The National Consumer Council.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; THE GLASS CONSUMER - Life in a surveillance society; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; Personal information: friend or foe?; Impacts on consumers; Outlining the chapters; Part One: Orientations; 1 - The personal information economy: trends and prospects for consumers; 2 - Regulatory provisions for privacy protection; 3 - The use and value of privacy enhancing technologies; Part Two: Contexts; 4 - The data-informed marketing model and its social responsibility; 5 - Personal data in the public sector: reconciling necessary sharing with confidentiality?

Part Three: Case studies6 - Data use in credit and insurance: controlling unfair outcomes; 7 - Personal information in the National Health Service: the demise or rise of patient interests?; Part Four: NCC's agenda; 8 - The new personal information agenda; Index

Sommario/riassunto

We are all 'glass consumers'. Organisations know so much about us,



they can almost see through us. This book takes the debate beyond privacy issues, arguing that we are living in a world in which - more than ever before - our personal information defines our opportunities in life.