LEADER 04179nam 22006495 450 001 9910483757703321 005 20230810163539.0 010 $a9783030027537 010 $a3030027538 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-02753-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000007204920 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5614175 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-02753-7 035 $a(Perlego)3491239 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007204920 100 $a20181211d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPopulation Registers and Privacy in Britain, 1936-1984 /$fby Kevin Manton 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (235 pages) 311 08$a9783030027520 311 08$a303002752X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: War-time System of National Registration -- Chapter 3: The Abolition of National Registration -- Chapter 4: Data for "Day-to-Day Intervention" -- Chapter 5: People and Numbers -- Chapter 6: The Younger Committee -- Chapter 7: Defending Data -- Chapter 8: The White Papers -- Chapter 9: The 1984 Data Protection Act -- Chapter 10: Conclusion. 330 $a'An impressively detailed analysis of the debates in the British central state regarding the need to create an integrated state information system to facilitate policy, and how this came into conflict with popular fears of state intrusion into individual privacy. In our contemporary world, where state and commercial use, and misuse, of personal data is still a burning issue, this work is of great importance.' - Edward Higgs, University of Essex, UK 'Kevin Manton gives us a rich, detailed and theoretically informed study of the tensions over the government's attempts to collect and use personal data on citizens. Anyone interested in the surprisingly long history of Big Data in the United Kingdom will need to read this book.' - Jon Agar, University College London, UK This book examines the fraught political relationship between British governments, which wanted information about peoples' lives, and the people who desired privacy. To do this it looks at something that Britain only experienced in wartime, a centralized and up-to-date list of everyone in the country: a population register. The abolition of this wartime system is contrasted with later attempts to reintroduce registration, and the change in the political mind-set driving these later schemes to develop centralised webs of so-called objective data is examined. These policies were confronted by privacy campaigns, studied here, but it is shown how government responses succeeded in turning political debates about data into technical discussions about computerization; thus protecting its data, largely on paper, from oversight. This reformulation also shaped the 1984 Data Protection Act, which consequently did not protect privacy but rather increased government's ability to gain knowledge of, and hence power over, the people. 606 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aSocial history 606 $aLaw$xHistory 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x1492- 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aPolitical History 606 $aSocial History 606 $aLegal History 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aLaw$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x1492-. 615 14$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aLegal History. 615 24$aHistory of Modern Europe. 676 $a909.82 676 $a342.410662 700 $aManton$b Kevin$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01225204 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483757703321 996 $aPopulation Registers and Privacy in Britain, 1936-1984$94334244 997 $aUNINA