title: The Limits Of Privacy (The Kluwer international series in engineering & computer science)
author:  Amitai Etzioni 
description: Privacy isn't all it's made out to be, says George Washington University scholar Amitai Etzioni. "Without privacy no society can long remain free," he writes, but our communities also have other goals that sometimes must override the privacy imperative. "Should the FBI be in a position to crack the encrypted messages employed by terrorists before they use them to orchestrate the next Oklahoma City bombing?" he asks. Etzioni's answer is a resounding "yes," and he applies similar logic to a number of areas. He believes, for example, that newborn babies should undergo HIV tests without parental consent because they could benefit from immediate treatment, even though mothers worried about personal revelations might object. He also supports the various sorts of "Megan's laws" that try to protect society against sex offenders.
zlib_text: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  
  1958
  
  Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
  
  3
  
  _Berlin_
  
  _Heidelberg_
  
  _New York_
  
  _Barcelona_
  
  _Hong Kong_
  
  _London_
  
  _Milan_
  
  _Paris_
  
  _Singapore_
  
  _Tokyo_
  
  Simone Fischer-Hübner
  
  IT-Security
  
  and Privacy
  
  Design and Use of
  
  Privacy-Enhancing Security Mechanisms
  
  1 3
  
  Series Editors
  
  Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany
  
  Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA
  
  Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  
  Author
  
  Simone Fischer-Hübner
  
  Karlstad University
  
  Department of Computer Science
  
  Universitetsgatan 1, 651 88 Karlstad, Sweden
  
  E-mail: simone.fischer-huebner@kau.se
  
  Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for
  
  Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme
  
  Fischer-Hübner, Simone:
  
  IT-security and privacy : design and use of privacy enhancing security
  mechanisms / Simone Fischer-Hübner. - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ;
  Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer,
  2001
  
  (Lectu