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Privacy and Its Invasion
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By Deckle McLean
ISBN: 0-275-95335-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95335-5
152 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/1995
List Price: $68.95 (UK Sterling Price: £39.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
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  • ...a refreshing viewpoint on the philosophical dimensions, including new looks at privacy and sexual assault, race, and newsroom ethics. In the end, casual reader and scholars will understand why privacy is an important value for human life.
    —
    Privacy Journal
Description: Privacy. We want lots of it for ourselves. We love to invade the privacy of others. We are willing to trade it for benefits of all kinds, including credit, social services, and friendship. Why is this? Where should we draw a line? How should we handle our ambivalence in an era in which privacy often appears to be under official attack?

This book explores such questions by rooting into scarce literature to explain why privacy is such a strong need, reviewing a variety of methods for guarding privacy, and concluding that at one time America was a very fortunate place privacy-wise. McLean examines problem areas in which privacy invasions play, or have played, large roles. Rape and sexual offenses are analyzed; so, too, is news reporting that touches private matters and race relations. Privacy and its Invasion also has a point to make: that privacy, despite its dark side, is an idea whose time has come, an ancient need that now requires explicit endorsement and protection as a value. A thought-provoking examination of something we have come to regard as a basic right, but a right under assault, this book is for all concerned with contemporary social and legal issues, civil liberties, and communications.
Table of Contents:
  • The Difficulties of Privacy as an Idea
  • Background: Up To and Through the American Golden Age of Privacy
  • Background: Those Left Out of the Golden Age
  • Types of Privacy
  • The Pernicious Side of Privacy
  • What Privacy Provides
  • Sexual Assault
  • News-Reporting Ethics
  • Invasions of Privacy
  • Summary
  • Index
LC Card Number: 95-9308
LCC Class: JC596
Dewey Class: 323
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