Balancing privacy and free speech : : unwanted attention in the age of social media / / Mark Tunick.

• VerfasserIn: Tunick, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1 ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 222 pages)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1317650360; 1315763133; 1317650379
• Access: Open access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Tunick.

In an age of smartphones, Facebook, and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions thatarise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the U.S., U.K., Australia,Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests can ever be weightier than society’s interest in free speech and access to information.Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, and drawing on the work of political theorist Jeremy Waldron concerning toleration, the book argues that we can still have a legitimate interest in controlling theextent to which information about us is disseminated. The book begins by exploring why privacy and free speech are valuable, before developing a framework for weighing these conflicting values. By taking up key cases in the U.S. and Europe, and the debate about a “right to be forgotten,” Tunick discusses the potential costs of limiting free speech, and points to legal remedies and other ways to develop new social attitudes to privacy in an age of instant information sharing.This book will be of great interest to students of privacy law, legal ethics,internet governance, and media law in general.