Description
| Product ID: | 9781805391159 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Politics of Personal Information |
| Subtitle: | Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany |
| Authors: | Author: Larry Frohman |
| Page Count: | 406 |
| Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Political control and freedoms, Privacy and data protection, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Political control & freedoms, Privacy & data protection, West Germany, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1980 to c 1990 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-15 |
