Frohman Larry - The Politics Of Personal Information Surveillance Privacy And Power In West Germany - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: In the 1970s and 1980s West Germany was a pioneer in both the use of the new information technologies for population surveillance and the adoption of privacy protection legislation. During this era of cultural change and political polarization the expansion bureaucratization and computerization of population surveillance disrupted the norms that had governed the exchange and use of personal information in earlier decades and gave rise to a set of distinctly postindustrial social conflicts centered on the use of personal information as a means of social governance in the welfare state. Combining vast archival research with a groundbreaking theoretical analysis this book gives a definitive account of the politics of personal information in West Germany at the dawn of the information society.
Title: The Politics Of Personal Information Surveillance Privacy And Power In West Germany
Author(s): Frohman Larry
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Barcode: 9781789209464
Pages: 406 Pages
Publication Date: 12/9/2020
Category: Privacy & Data Protection