title: Privacy and Social Freedom (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy)
author:  Ferdinand David Schoeman 
description: "Overall, the book is thorough in scope and contains a very interesting discussion." Canadian Philosophical Reviews
zlib_text: Law and the Philosophy of Privacy
  Situating privacy within the context of political philosophy, this book high-
  lights the way in which struggles concerning the meaning of privacy have
  always been political. Different conceptions of privacy are here shown to
  involve diverse assumptions about ontology: our conceptions of self,
  culture, society and communication. Privacy theory’s debt to Locke, Kant
  or Mill, and what is at stake in their conceptual frameworks, is examined.
  The extent to which the term “privacy” has been used to the detriment of
  – and to create – weaker parties in marriage, in the workplace and now as
  citizens (or non-citizens) and consumers, as well as employees, is also
  demonstrated. In contrast, Janice Richardson pursues the relevance of
  Floridi’s philosophy of information, before turning to her application of
  Spinoza, the philosopher of communication, in order to outline a more
  useful framework through which to think about privacy today. The book
  will be of interest t