Privacy under pressure

"Privacy under pressure" (mp4 format) is a webcast by James Rule in a seminar held last 10 Febrery at Oxford Internet Institute.

James Rule is professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Is it reasonable to seek meaningful limits on institutions accumulation and use of data on ourselves?

And if so, what principle or strategy could one put forward to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable uses of personal data?

Papers by James Rule:

Computing and Social Change: Employment and Efficiency

Books by James Rule:

Theory and Progress in Social Science