Preface

1. Privacy: A Concept in Disarray

Privacy: An Issue of Global Concern

Technology and the Rising Concern Over Privacy

The Concept of Privacy

A New Theory of Privacy

2. Conceptions of Privacy

Methods of Conceptualizing

Conceptions of Privacy

Can Privacy Be Conceptualized?

3. Reconstructing Privacy

Method

Generality

Variability

Focus

4. The Value of Privacy

The Virtues and Vices of Privacy

Theories of the Valuation of Privacy

The Social Value of Privacy

Privacy's Pluralistic Value

5. A Taxonomy of Privacy

The Need for a Taxonomy of Privacy

The Taxonomy

Information Collection

Information Processing

Information Dissemination

Invasion

6. Privacy: A New Understanding

The Nature of Privacy Problems

Privacy and Cultural Difference

The Benefits of a Pluralistic Conception of Privacy

The Future of Privacy

Notes

Index

Daniel J. Solove is Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.