Population Registers And Privacy In Britain 1936 1984

Author : Kevin Manton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783030027544
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Population Registers and Privacy in Britain, 1936--1984 written by Kevin Manton and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An impressively detailed analysis of the debates in the British central state regarding the need to create an integrated state information system to facilitate policy, and how this came into conflict with popular fears of state intrusion into individual privacy. In our contemporary world, where state and commercial use, and misuse, of personal data is still a burning issue, this work is of great importance."--Edward Higgs, University of Essex, UK 'Kevin Manton gives us a rich, detailed and theoretically informed study of the tensions over the government's attempts to collect and use personal data on citizens. Anyone interested in the surprisingly long history of Big Data in the United Kingdom will need to read this book.' - Jon Agar, University College London, UK This book examines the fraught political relationship between British governments, which wanted information about peoples' lives, and the people who desired privacy. To do this it looks at something that Britain only experienced in wartime, a centralized and up-to-date list of everyone in the country: a population register. The abolition of this wartime system is contrasted with later attempts to reintroduce registration, and the change in the political mind-set driving these later schemes to develop centralised webs of so-called objective data is examined. These policies were confronted by privacy campaigns, studied here, but it is shown how government responses succeeded in turning political debates about data into technical discussions about computerization; thus protecting its data, largely on paper, from oversight. This reformulation also shaped the 1984 Data Protection Act, which consequently did not protect privacy but rather increased government's ability to gain knowledge of, and hence power over, the people.

Author : Kevin Manton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030027538
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Population Registers and Privacy in Britain, 1936—1984 written by Kevin Manton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the fraught political relationship between British governments, which wanted information about peoples’ lives, and the people who desired privacy. To do this it looks at something that Britain only experienced in wartime, a centralized and up-to-date list of everyone in the country: a population register. The abolition of this wartime system is contrasted with later attempts to reintroduce registration, and the change in the political mind-set driving these later schemes to develop centralised webs of so-called objective data is examined. These policies were confronted by privacy campaigns, studied here, but it is shown how government responses succeeded in turning political debates about data into technical discussions about computerization; thus protecting its data, largely on paper, from oversight. This reformulation also shaped the 1984 Data Protection Act, which consequently did not protect privacy but rather increased government’s ability to gain knowledge of, and hence power over, the people.

Author : Kevin Manton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000801160
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern British Data State, 1945-2000 written by Kevin Manton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating and deploying population data. It dates this biopolitical data turn in British politics to the arrival of the Labour government in 1964. It analyses government’s increased desire to know the population, the impact this has had on British political culture and the institutions and systems introduced or modified to achieve this. It probes the political struggles around these initiatives to show that despite setbacks along the way and regardless of party, all British governments since the mid-1960s have accepted that data is the key to modern politics and have pursued it relentlessly.

Author : Larry Frohman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805393618
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Personal Information written by Larry Frohman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1270 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1572 pages
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Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard E. Bilsborrow
Publisher : International Labour Organization
ISBN 13 : 9789221095170
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Migration Statistics written by Richard E. Bilsborrow and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1997 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the role played by the state and private sectors in organizing labour migration, and the economic and social issues raised by such migration policies and programmes. It explores the question of whether, and how, migrant workers should be controlled and regulated to safeguard the interests of the sending state without infringing the basic rights of the individual.

Author : United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Secretary's Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens written by United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Secretary's Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Gillespie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509931635
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People, Power, and Law written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique insight into the key legal and social issues at play in New Zealand today. Tackling the most pressing issues, it tracks the evolution of these societal problems from 1840 to the present day. Issues explored include: racism; the position of women; the position of Maori and free speech and censorship. Through these issues, the authors track New Zealand's evolution to one of the most famously liberal and tolerant societies in the world.

Author : Colin R. Chapman
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806316130
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pre-1841 Censuses & Population Listings in the British Isles written by Colin R. Chapman and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It has long been an article of faith that the census of 1841 was the first British census to list the names of individuals. In nearly 90 pages of text, accompanied by unique notes and references to original documents, Mr. Chapman explodes this myth by describing hundreds of pre-1841 name lists (censuses, poll lists, national surveys, tax lists, parish enumerations, etc.), explaining most of them, as far as possible, in their historical framework. As logic would dictate, the work follows a chronological pattern, and for this new fifth edition the author has appended, in Appendix I, a county-by-county breakdown of the various censuses containing individuals' names with the dates of those censuses; and for completeness, in Appendix II, he has added a list of decennial censuses containing names of individuals from 1801 to 1831. This new fifth edition, completely rewritten, incorporates over 200 additional listings for Ireland, making it a unique chronological account of censuses and enumerations in the British Isles from 1086 to 1841"--Publisher's description.