Controlling Knowledge: Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World - Softcover

Stefanick, Lorna

 
9781926836263: Controlling Knowledge: Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World
Softcover
ISBN 10: 192683626X ISBN 13: 9781926836263
Verlag: AU Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? In Controlling Knowledge, author Lorna Stefanick offers a thought-provoking and eminently user-friendly overview of current legislation governing freedom of information and the protection of privacy.

Aiming to clarify rather than mystify, Stefanick outlines the history and application of FOIP legislation, with special focus on how these laws affect the individual. To illustrate the impact of FOIP, she examines the notion of informed consent, looks at concerns about surveillance in the digital age, and explores the sometimes insidious influence of Facebook. Specialists in public policy and public administration, information technology, communications, law, criminal justice, sociology, and health care will find much here that bears directly on their work, while students and general readers will welcome the book’s down-to-earth language and accessible style.

Intended to serve as a “citizen’s guide,” Controlling Knowledge is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand how freedom of information and privacy protection are legally defined and how this legislation is shaping our individual rights as citizens of the information age.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lorna Stefanick is an associate professor in the Governance, Law, and Management program in the Centre for State and Legal Studies at Athabasca University.

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Verlag
AU Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
192683626X
ISBN 13 
9781926836263
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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