The Handbook of Privacy Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

The 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.The book 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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - Bart van der Sloot & Aviva de Groot Chapter I Privacy from a Historical Perspective - Sjoerd Keulen & Ronald Kroeze Snippet I Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy - Priscilla Regan Chapter II Privacy from a Legal Perspective - Bart van der Sloot Snippet II Three Dimensions of Privacy - Beate Roessler Chapter III Privacy from an Ethical Perspective - Marijn Sax Snippet III Nudging: A Very Short Guide - Cass R. Sunstein Chapter IV Privacy from an Economic Perspective - Edo Roos Lindgreen Snippet IV Security, Privacy, and the Internet of Things - Mikko Hypponen Chapter V Privacy from an Informatics Perspective - Matthijs Koot & Cees de Laat Snippet V Political Science and Privacy - Charles Raab Chapter VI Privacy from an Intelligence Perspective - Willemijn Aerdts & Giliam de Valk Snippet VI A privacy Doctrine for the Cyber Age - Amitai Etzioni Chapter VII Privacy from an Archival Perspective - Tjeerd Schiphof Snippet VII Medical Privacy: Where Deontology and Consequentialism Meet - Robin Pierce Chapter VIII Privacy from a Medical Perspective - Wouter Koelewijn Snippet VIII Privacy Law: on the Books and on the Ground - Kenneth A. Bamberger & Deirdre K. Mulligan Chapter IX Privacy from a Media Studies Perspective - Jo Pierson & Ine Van Zeeland Snippet IX Diversity and Accountability in Data-Rich Market - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger Chapter X Privacy from a Communication Science Perspective - Sandra Petronio Snippet X Still Uneasy: a Life with Privacy - Anita LaFrance Allen Chapter XI Privacy from an Anthropological Perspective - Sjaak van der Geest.

About the Author :
Bart van der Sloot is associate professor specialising in tech and privacy at Tilburg University. He was inter alia a co-author to the WRR Big Data Study and the WODC research into Big Data and procedural law for the 21st Century. Bart has won three prestigious prices and grants: the NWO Top Talent Grant, the NWO Veni Grant and the KNAW Early Career Award. Aviva de Groot is a PhD researcher at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society. After her Information Laws master thesis on social robots, her current project aims to identify explanatory bench-marks and modalities for providing rights relevant understanding of data driven technologies and their applications to laymen users. With privacy at the core, her interests more broadly concern humans and technology, their mutual shaping and how this efffects our understanding of human rights protections. She has professional and research experience in fields where technology supports human interaction and where humans interact with machines.

Review :
This new handbook represents an impressive attempt to summarise encyclopaedically the state of the art of relevant legal and social science knowledge on privacy in general. For a topic that is subject to constant mutations from intermittent technological change, and where cultural differences lead to dissimilar rules, perceptions and practices in different jurisdictions and different cultural communities, this is a tall order. The editors deserve credit and praise for having undertaken this unparalleled task - in a hardcopy publication on top of that. (...) The impressive breadth of this project makes it stand out; indeed, there seems to be no direct competition on the book market. - dr. J. Kornbeck, Journal of Data Protection & Privacy