Population Registers and Privacy in Britain, 1936-1984

• Main Author: Manton, Kevin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Great Britain-History.; World politics.; Social history.; Law-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Political History.; Social History.; Legal History.; History of Modern Europe.

'An impressively detailed analysis of the debates in the British central state regarding the need to create an integrated state information system to facilitate policy, and how this came into conflict with popular fears of state intrusion into individual privacy. In our contemporary world, wher...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: War-time System of National Registration
• Chapter 3: The Abolition of National Registration
• Chapter 4: Data for "Day-to-Day Intervention"
• Chapter 5: People and Numbers
• Chapter 6: The Younger Committee
• Chapter 7: Defending Data
• Chapter 8: The White Papers
• Chapter 9: The 1984 Data Protection Act
• Chapter 10: Conclusion.