TY - BOOK AU - Wacks, Raymond TI - Privacy : : a very short introduction /​ SN - 9780198725947 (pbk.) U1 - 323.448 PY - 2010///. CY - New York : PB - Oxford University Press, KW - Political science KW - Political Freedom &​ Security KW - Data protection -- Law and legislation N1 - Includes references and index. N2 - Professor Raymond Wacks is a leading international expert on privacy. For more than three decades he has published numerous books and articles on this controversial subject. Privacy is a fundamental value that is under attack from several quarters. Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, RFID codes, online security, the monitoring of employees, the uses and misuses of DNA, - to name but a few - all raise fundamental questions about our right to privacy ER -