Handbook of Privacy Studies : An Interdisciplinary Introduction, Paperback by...

Handbook of Privacy Studies : An Interdisciplinary Introduction, Paperback by Sloot, Bart Van Der (EDT); Groot, Aviva De (EDT), ISBN 9462988099, ISBN-13 9789462988095, Brand New, Free P&P in the UKThe Handbook of Privacy Studies is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective. Privacy is in the news almost every day: mass surveillance by intelligence agencies, the use of social media data for commercial profit and political microtargeting, password hacks and identity theft, new data protection regimes, questionable reuse of medical data, and concerns about how algorithms shape the way we think and decide. This book offers interdisciplinary background information about these developments and explains how to understand and properly evaluate them. Th is set up for use in interdisciplinary educational programmes. Each chapter provides a structured analysis of the role of privacy within that discipline, its characteristics, themes and debates, as well as current challenges. Disciplinary approaches are presented in such a way that students and researchers from every scientific background can follow the argumentation and enrich their own understanding of privacy issues. 1. First comprehensive compilation of 15 disciplinary introductions to privacy studies over different disciplines 2. First book that transcends disciplinary research by working with an interdisciplinary methodology and providing cross-disciplinary analysis in the introduction and conclusion 3. Written for educational purposes, for researchers in the field of privacy and for the general public interested in privacy and data driven technologies