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ReviewDaniel Solove offers a unique, challenging account of how to think better about-- and of-- privacy. No scholar in America is more consecrated to demystifying "the right to privacy".
--Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School (20100405)

Daniel Solove has had the forbearance and clear or deep perception to lay privacy bare. This is the most exhaustive and persuasive conceptualization of privacy written to date. Solove's taxonomy of privacy will become the ordinary tool for analyzing privacy problems.
--Peter P. Swire, C. William O'Neill Professor of Law and Judicial Administration, Ohio State University

One of the topic's most prolific and thoughtful thinkers, Daniel Solove has written a clear and comprehensive analysis of privacy. In it, he explains why it has been so hard to conceptualize this thing called privacy, and provides a pragmatic, bottom-up understanding. This book will advertize sharper thinking and analysis for the next generation of privacy scholarship and policy.
--Jerry Kang, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law

With the publication of Understanding Privacy, Daniel J. Solove has with resolute determination conventional himself as one of America's leading intellectuals in the field of selective information policy and cyberlaw...Solove has now elevated himself to that rarefied air of "people worth watching" in the cyberlaw field; an intellectual--like Lawrence Lessig or Jonathan Zittrain--whose each publication becomes something of an event in the field to which all eyes turn upon release...Make no doubt regarding it, Daniel Solove's book--and his approach to classifying and dealing with privacy problems--will have a unfathomed affect on all future privacy debates. In that sense, it is a critical text; a will have to read for all who follow, or engage in, privacy debates.
--Adam Thierer (Technology Liberation Front )

Instead of reducing this subject to an academic parlor game, Solove uses interdisciplinary roots to offer a convincing argument in regards to why everyone must care deeply when it comes to understanding the nature of privacy. Legal scholars will want to read this book, but so will psychologists, communicating specialists, public policy makers, philosophers, and anybody mesmerized in where to draw the line amid public and private life.
--D. S. Dunn (Choice )

[A] thoughtful examination of the conception of privacy: what it is, why it seems eternally beneath threat and why we carry on to fight for it...[Solove's] is a pragmatic, contextual approach that tries to understand privacy in exercise rather than in theory.
--Paul Duguid (The Nation )

ReviewDaniel Solove offers a unique, challenging account of how to think better about-- and of-- privacy. No scholar in America is more committed to demystifying "the right to privacy". (Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School 20100405)

About the AuthorDaniel J. Solove is Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.

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12 of 12 humans found the following review helpful.
Masterful Exploration of Privacy and Why It Matters
By D. K. Citron
It may many times seem that we have no secrets--students trumpet their kinship status and crushes on Facebook, info brokers trade our Social Security numbers for a little fee, grocery stores recognise our eating habits and may guess to the dime what we will appear in our carts at check out each Sunday. So why bother caring with regards to privacy if we genuinely do not have any and cannot control it anyway?

In a beautifully rendered and important book, Professor Solove helps answer that question (and a great deal of others) and, in the process, deepens our appreciation of how much privacy is in truth at stake and why it matters.

Understanding Privacy cautiously lays out the dissimilar ways our privacy is compromised and the hurt that may result. The book brings alive the fact that when our privacy is threatened, persons are not alone in suffering harm. To be sure, a person whose privacy is compromised experiences problems, from identity theft when a Social Security number is freed to a thief to lost occupation prospects when drug testing results taken for sports programs make their way to future employers. But, as this book so ably demonstrates, society as a whole suffers as well.

Understanding Privacy illuminates the kaleidoscopic interests at stake and offers a principled way for us to face them. As engineering marches on, our privacy is more and more compromised. Telephone companies store our incoming and outgoing calls, search engines recognise what we are mesmerized in, and the government mines our information. But, as this book makes clear, businesses, government, and humans are in charge of those technologies and have indispensable conclusions to make when it comes to the data that they amass, use, and disclose, and the activenesses that they watch. This book is a ought to read for any person who wants to be grateful for the philosophical and practical questions at issue in our info age.

9 of 10 humans found the following review helpful.
an important, but flawed, construction of privacy
By Adam Thierer
Daniel Solove's book -- and his approach to classifying and dealing with privacy difficulties -- will have a unfathomed affect on all future privacy debates. In that sense, it is a critical text; a will have to read for all who follow, or engage in, privacy debates.

On the other hand, Solove's assert that he may manufacture a new paradigm based strictly on a pragmatic, utilitarian, "problem-solving" approach, is at last a failure. There is just no getting around the fact that, at a great deal of point, you are going to have to provide a more robust theory of rights or justice to explain why one right trumps another. He fails to do so in this book.

Read my finish review here:

http://techliberation.com/2008/11/08/book-review-soloves-understanding-privacy

5 of 5 persons found the following review helpful.
Good exploration and discussion of privacy.
By K. Robinson
I picked up this book because I was working on a college report dealing with privacy. I love this book--it has deepened my understanding of privacy. Solove presents a taxonomy of privacy harms, listing four major and regarding 16-20 minor categories of privacy harm, covering a wide range of topics and examples as well as legal precedents and cultural differences. I have not seen so finish an exploration of privacy, altho I still don't think this book alone will give a full understanding of privacy. Solove doesn't directly address selective information permanence or long-term storage as a injure (though it might obliquely fall underneath his "data processing" category). A student of privacy in all likelihood ought to grasp respective forms of privacy shelter as well, such as Safe Harbor (though it was not intended as a model, it is still instructive).

I believe this book is a must-read for any student of privacy. If you don't want to buy this book yet, I commend finding a copy of his paper "'I've Got Nothing to Hide', and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy". That paper outlines his taxonomy, and does a very good occupation of defending privacy in the digital age. You might be capable to find the paper online for free.

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