The Politics of Personal Information

Larry Frohman is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York. He is the author of Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I (Cambridge University Press, 2008), along with a series of articles on the welfare state.

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Acknowledgements



Introduction: Surveillance, Privacy, and Power in the Information Society



Part I: Population Registration, Power, and Privacy



Chapter 1. The Federal Population Registration, Administrative Power, and the Politicization of Privacy



Part II: Negotiating Communicative Norms in the Computer Age:  The Information Question and the Federal Privacy Protection Law, 1970–1990



Chapter 2. Rethinking Privacy in the Age of the Mainframe:  From the Private Sphere to Informational Self-Determination

Chapter 3. The Legislative Path to the Federal Privacy Protection Law, 1970-77

Chapter 4. “Only Sheep Let Themselves Be Counted”:  The 1983/87 Census Boycotts, the Census Decision, and the Question of Statistical Governance

Chapter 5. Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire:  The Census Decision, Party Politics, and the Revision of the Federal Privacy Protection Law



Part III: The Precautionary Turn:  Security, Surveillance, and the Changing Nature of the State



Chapter 6. Paper, Power, and Policing:  The Federal Criminal Police on the Cusp of the Computer Age

Chapter 7. The Quest for Security and the Meaning of Privacy:  Computers, Networks, and the Securitization of Space, Place, Movement, and Identity

Chapter 8. Mapping the Radical Milieu:  Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the New Police Surveillance

Chapter 9. The Reform of Police Law:  Datenschutz, the Defense of Law, and the Debate over Precautionary Surveillance



Conclusion



Selected Bibliography