Human rights in an information age : a philosophical analysis / Gregory J. Walters.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3 -- The Information Age Revolution 4 -- Purpose and Methodology 10 -- Three Ethical Challenges of Canadian Information Highway -- Policy 10 -- Aims and Terminological Presuppositions 14 -- The Conceptual Importance of Information to Human Rights 18 -- Philosophical Parameters and Thesis 21 -- Structure of the Book 23 -- 1 The Philosophical Framework 26 -- The Information Age in the Context of Modernity 26 -- Human Rights in an Information Age 32 -- 2 Information Highway Policy and E-Commerce Strategy 53 -- The Public Policy Product Cycle 53 -- Historical and Sociological Specification of Canadian Com- -- munications Policy 55 -- Industry Canada and the Information Highway Advisory -- Council 60 -- IHAC Policy Phase I: 1993-95 61 --IHAC Policy Phase II: 1996-98 67 -- IHAC Policy Phase III: The Canadian Electronic Commerce -- Strategy 69 -- Methodological and Ethical Analysis 72 -- 3 The Informational Economy, Work, and Productive Agency 80 -- Productive Agency, Work, and Human Capital 81 -- Two Justifications of Private Property 86 -- Inequality and the Restriction of Property Rights 89 -- The Global Situation: The Informational Economy 93 -- The North American Situation 102 -- The Informational Economy and the Community of Rights 116 -- 4 Privacy and Security Policy: The Historical Situation 117 -- The Global Situation 117 -- The Canadian Situation 125 -- Conclusion 147 -- 5 Privacy and Security: An Ethical Analysis 150 -- Surveying Our Technological Situation 151 -- Legal, Social Science, and Philosophical Conceptions of -- Privacy 157 -- Action Theory and the Ethical Justification of Privacy Rights 164 -- Privacy and Security Policy in the Light of the Principle of -- Human Rights 165 -- Conclusion 183 -- 6 Information Warfare 187 -- The 'Revolution in Military Affairs' 188 -- Information Warfare: Definitions and Conceptions 190 -- Global Surveillance Practices: The ECHELON Network 196 -- Strategic Information Warfare Rising 199 -- Information Warfare and International Human Rights Law 201 -- Information Warfare and the Principle of Generic Consistency 204 -- A 'Just' Information War? 213 -- Is 'Perpetual Peace' Possible in the Information Age? 214 -- Conclusion 216 -- 7 Information Warfare and Deterrence 218 -- Information Warfare Policy: Clarifying the Terms of the Debate 219 Instrumental Rationality, Reasonableness, and Motivation 221 -- Strategic Information Warfare Deterrence and the Prisoner's -- Dilemma 225 -- Rethinking Policy Alternatives for the Information Age 231 -- Conclusion 236 -- Conclusion: Towards a Global Community of Rights -- in the Information Age 238 -- Notes 255 -- References 277 -- Index 313.