While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized databases, wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues, legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting those with a vested interest in new technology over those advocating privacy ...
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While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized databases, wiretapping, and polygraph testing. In each case, she argues, legislation has represented an unbalanced compromise benefiting those with a vested interest in new technology over those advocating privacy protection. Legislating Privacy explores the dynamics of congressional policy formulation and traces the limited response of legislators to the concept of privacy as a fundamental individual right. According to Regan, we will need an expanded understanding of the social value of privacy if we are to achieve greater protection from emerging technologies such as Caller ID and genetic testing. Specifically, she argues that a recognition of the social importance of privacy will shift both the terms of the policy debate and the patterns of interest-group action in future congressional activity on privacy issues. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. xix, [3], 310 pages. Tables. Figures. Preface, Acknowledgments, Appendixes, Notes, and Index. Also includes chapters on Privacy, Technology, and Public Policy; Privacy as a Philosophical and Legal Concept; Privacy in American Society, Information Privacy: Recording Our Transactions; Communication Privacy: Transmitting Our Messages; Psychological Privacy: Evaluating Our Thoughts; Congress, Privacy, and Policy Decisions; and Privacy and the Common Good: Implications for Public Policy. Legislating Privacy explores the dynamics of congressional policy formulation on privacy issues and explains why legislation has lagged behind technological development. According to Regan, supporters of the new technologies succeed in delaying and ultimately weakening pro privacy legislation because they were better organized and had greater financial resources than their opponents. In addition, Reagan argues, privacy proponent made a strategic error by promoting the concept of privacy as a fundamental individual right. This definition of the nature and value of privacy met with only limited congressional support, and in each successive debate, the importance of privacy diminished. According to Regan, we will need an expanded understanding of the social value of privacy if we are to achiever greater protection from emerging technologies such as Caller ID and genetic testing. She argues that a recognition of the public and collective importance of privacy will shift both the terms of the policy debate and the patterns of interest-group action in future congressional activity on privacy issues. Dr. Regan is a Professor in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University. Prior to joining that faculty in 1989, she was a Senior Analyst in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (1984-1989) and an Assistant Professor of Politics and Government at the University of Puget Sound (1979-1984). From 2005 to 2007, she served as a Program Officer for the Science, Technology and Society Program at the National Science Foundation. Since the mid-1970s, Dr. Regan's primary research interests have focused on both the analysis of the social, policy, and legal implications of organizational use of new information and communications technologies, and also on the emergence and implementation of electronic government initiatives by federal agencies. Dr. Regan has published over forty articles or book chapters, as well as Legislating Privacy: Technology, Social Values, and Public Policy. As a recognized expert in this area, Dr. Regan has testified before Congress and participated in meetings held by the Department of Commerce, Federal Trade Commission, Social Security Administration, and Census Bureau. She was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on Authentication Technologies and their Privacy Implications. Dr. Regan received her Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.
