The Individual and Privacy by Joseph A. Cannataci - 9781409447177

Taylor & Francis

This collection of essays reflects the many paths followed to develop a new, more robust methodology (idMAPPING) for investigating privacy. The volume offers a multi-disciplinary overview of the subject and brings together different approaches by different scholars at different times with different points of view. The detailed introduction brings clarity to the picture and concludes by challenging internet-era fallacies. Taken together, the articles demonstrate an innovative approach to evidence-based policy-making, and show privacy scholarship at its best. > The essays selected for this volume reflect the many paths followed to develop a new, more robust methodology (idMAPPING) for investigating privacy. Each article deals with the three dimensions of time, space and place by addressing a number of questions such as: who? Which individual? When? How? Is privacy viewed from the perspective of legal theory, or of information science? Or from the viewpoint of sociology, social psych.