Secrecy, Privacy and Accountability Challenges for Social Research /

• Main Author: Sheaff, Mike (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 Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Law and the social sciences.; Business ethics.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Socio-legal Studies.; Business Ethics.

"Secrecy and fake news define our contemporary world. Mike Sheaff's fascinating book is a timely investigation into the ways in which organisations can use a discourse of privacy to justify the withholding of information that threatens their power. Sheaff explores the implications of secre...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Public and Private: Transparency and Responsibility
• 3. A Right to Privacy and a Right to Know
• 4. Secrecy and 'Studying-up'
• 5. FOIA and 'Studying-up:' A Case Study
• 6. Trust, Transparency and Privacy. .