Privacy Law Today

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Privacy Law Today" is a unique collection of contemporary readings on information law, policy, and values contributed by some of the most knowledgeable and creative thinkers in the field. While it primarily anthologizes recent perspectives by living authors, a few "classics" are included to invite comparison, contrast, and an appreciation of how technology has and has not changed the conversation about the significance of privacy.
The book is divided into chapters covering a wide range of topics, starting with the conceptual, moral, and political dimensions of governing privacy and the flow of information. Other topics include: Privacy in relation to social networking, search engines, internet service providers, e-commerce, and cloud computing; Privacy protection for intimacy, sexuality, celebrities, and public officials; Privacy concerns raised by violence, law enforcement, terrorism, and surveillance; Privacy and confidentiality in health care, genetics, and research; and financial privacy, cross-border data flows, and privacy as an international human right.
Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has served as Deputy Dean of the Law School and a Senior Fellow in Bioethics. Allen was appointed to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues by President Barack Obama. She holds a law degree from Harvard and a PhD from the University of Michigan. Allen is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and four books. After the success of her 2004 book "The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape," Allen was offered her own newspaper column by the Newark "Star-Ledger," which came to be called "The Moralist." Allen was featured on MSNBC's "The Ethical Edge" and has been a panelist on the Fred Friendly "Ethics in America" seminar series on PBS. Allen has served on the Executive Committee of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics and has been an ethics contributor to O magazine and dailybeast.com. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Hastings Center, the nation's first biomedical ethics think tank, and is an ordained elder of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.