Contours of Privacy

The contours of privacy - its particular forms and our reasons for valuing it - are numerous and varied. This book explores privacy's contours in a series of essays on such themes as the relationship between privacy and social accountability, privacy in and beyond anonymity, the psychology of privacy, and the privacy concerns of emerging information technologies. The book's international and multidisciplinary group of contributors provides rich insights about privacy that will be of great interest not only to the scholarly privacy community at large but also to professionals, academics, and laypersons who understand that the contours of privacy weave themselves throughout wide swaths of life in present-day society. The stylistically accessible yet scholarly rigorous nature of 'The Contours of Privacy', along with the diversity of perspectives it offers, sets it apart as one of the most important additions to the privacy literature on the contemporary scene.