Introduction. Surveillance, privacy, and power in the information society -- The Federal Population Registration Law, administrative power, and the politicization of privacy -- Rethinking privacy in the age of the mainframe : from the private sphere to informational self-determination -- The legislative path to the Federal Privacy Protection Law, 1970-77 -- "Only sheep let themselves be counted" : the 1983/87 census boycotts, the census decision, and the question of statistical governance -- Out of the frying pan and into the fire : the census decision, party politics, and the revision of the Federal Privacy Protection Law -- Paper, power, and policing, 1948-72 : the Federal Criminal Police on the cusp of the computer age -- The quest for security and the meaning of privacy : computers, networks, and the securitization of space, place, movement, and identity -- Mapping the radical milieu : terrorism, counterterrorism, and the new police surveillance -- The reform of police law : Datenschutz, the defense of law, and the debate over precautionary surveillance.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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