New Book Offers Insights on Privacy and Security for 2005

Have intelligence reform and other increases in government power undermined civil liberties in the United States? Has the push for greater anonymity by privacy advocates undercut the war against terrorism? Seeking to answer some of the most pressing questions for 2005, The Open Society Paradox: Why the Twenty-First Century Calls for More Openness – Not Less challenges the conventional wisdom of those on both sides of the debate—leaders who want unlimited authority and advocates who would sacrifice security for individual privacy.

Following the release of their best seller Imperial Hubris, Potomac Books’ The Open Society Paradox offers a provocative, timely and original alternative, suggesting that while the very openness of American society has left the United States vulnerable to today’s threats, only more of this quality will make the country safer and enhance its citizens’ freedom and mobility.

Uniquely qualified to address these issues, information technology consultant Dennis Bailey argues that the solution is not to create a police state that restricts liberties but, paradoxically, to embrace greater openness. Through new technologies that engender transparency, including secure identification, biometrics, surveillance, facial recognition, and data mining, society can remove the anonymity of the ill-intentioned while revitalizing the notions of trust and accountability and enhancing freedom for most Americans. He explores the impact of greater transparency on our lives, our relationships, and our liberties. The Open Society Paradox is a brave exploration of how to realign our traditional assumptions about privacy with a twenty-first-century concept of an open society.

"Dennis Bailey's book offers a truly original approach to our thinking about the relationship between the society and the individual in an age of rapidly expanding technological surveillance. The book opens new vistas, and is thought provoking even for those who have long inhabited the many fields of study that the book encompasses."
--Amitai Etzioni, Founder of the Communitarian Network

DENNIS BAILEY is an information technology consultant whose expertise includes security and privacy issues in the public and private sectors. He currently helps the State Department manage private personnel data. He is also a participant in the Sub-Group on Identification for the Markle Foundation’s Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

For an author interview or more information, please contact:
Claire Noble
Potomac Books
22841 Quicksilver Drive
Dulles, VA 20166
703-996-1017
claire@booksintl.com.

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