Taking Privacy Seriously - How to Create the Rights We Need While We Still Have Something to Protect

Other books remind us of what we already know-that privacy is under great pressure. James Rule provides a step-by-step plan-to create a significantly more private and authentically democratic world. -Taking Privacy Seriously-offers both a concise, hard-hitting assessment of the origins of today-s privacy-eroding practices and a roadmap for creating robust new individual rights over our personal data. Rule-proposes eleven-key-reforms-in the control and use of personal information, all aimed at redressing the balance of power between ordinary citizens and data-hungry corporate and government institutions. -What a privacy-deprived America needs-most is not less technology, Rule argues, but-profound political realignment.-His eleven-proposed reforms range from launching a major public-works investment consisting of a series of websites publicly documenting the personal data uses of nearly all government and private institutions; to instating a right for any citizen to withdraw from any per