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Security and Privacy: Global Standards for Ethical Identity Management

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Security and Privacy: Global Standards for Ethical Identity Management
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Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN-13: 9781921862588
Number of pages: 304

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This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology -- electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling -- in the context of transnational crime and global terrorism. The ethical challenge at the heart of this study is to establish an acceptable and sustainable equilibrium between two central moral values in contemporary liberal democracies, namely, security and privacy.

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