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Unwanted Gaze The Destruction of Privacy in America

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ISBN-10: 0679765204

ISBN-13: 9780679765202

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jeffrey Rosen

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The Unwanted Gaze is an important book about one of the most pressing issues of our day: how changes in technology and the law have combined to demolish our rights of privacy, and what we can and must do to re-secure them. In a world in which Ken Starr can subpoena Monica Lewinsky?s bookstore receipts and deleted e-mail messages can be used as justification for firing employees, it?s clear that private information of all kinds can be taken out of context and wielded against us. Where exactly did our constitutional guarantees on privacy go? In superbly lucid prose, Jeffrey Rosen tells not only where those privacy rights went but also how we can get them back. The Unwanted Gaze is utterly…    
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Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/12/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Jeffrey Rosenis a professor of law at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He also serves as legal editor for the New Republic and is the author of several books, including The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America(Times Books, 2007) and The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age(Random House, 2005). Benjamin Wittesis a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and served nine years as an editorial writer with the Washington Post. His previous books include Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor after Guant�namo(Brookings, 2010) and Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of…    

Prologue: The Unwanted Gaze
Privacy at Home
Privacy at Work
Jurisprurience
Privacy in Court
Privacy in Cyberspace
Epilogue: What Is Privacy Good For?
Afterword to the Vintage Edition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index