1 Privacy: A Concept in Disarray 1
Privacy: An Issue of Global Concern 2
Technology and the Rising Concern over Privacy 4
The Concept of Privacy 6
A New Theory ofPrivacy 8
2 Theories of Privacy and Their Shortcomings 12
Methods of Conceptualizing 13
Conceptions ofPrivacy 14
Can Privacy Be Conceptualized? 37
3 Reconstructing Privacy 39
Method 41
Generality 46
Variability 50
Focus 67
4 The Value of Privacy 78
The V.irtues and Vices ofPrivacy 79
Theories of the Valuation of Privacy 84
The Social Value ofPrivacy 89
Privacy's Pluralistic Value 98
5 ATaxonomy of Privacy 101
Information Collection 106
Information Processing 117
Information Dissemination 136
Invasion 161
Privacy: A New Understanding 171
The Nature of Privacy Problems 174
Privacy and Cultural Difference 183
The Benefits of a Pluralistic Conception of Privacy 187
The Future of Privacy 196
Notes 199
Index 247