The Politics of Personal Information : : Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in West Germany / / Larry Frohman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Frohman, Larry,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Ano de Publicação: 2020
• Idioma: English
• Descrição Física: 1 online resource (406 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Population Registration, Power, and Privacy -- Chapter 1 The Federal Population Registration Law, Administrative Power, and the Politicization of Privacy -- Part II. Negotiating Communicative Norms in the Computer Age -- Chapter 2 Rethinking Privacy in the Age of the Mainframe -- Chapter 3 The Legislative Path to the Federal Privacy Protection Law, 1970–77 -- Chapter 4 “Only Sheep Let Themselves Be Counted” -- Chapter 5 Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire -- Part III. The Precautionary Turn -- Chapter 6 Paper, Power, and Policing, 1948–72 -- Chapter 7 The Quest for Security and the Meaning of Privacy -- Chapter 8 Mapping the Radical Milieu -- Chapter 9 The Reform of Police Law -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index