ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on privacy, beginning with the analyses of the concept in both the judicial and the social-scientific literatures. It shows that the realities differ greatly from the myths about Camelot, and that it is important to comprehend these realities if we are to avoid making similar mistakes. The book illustrates another facet of the problems created by abstract moralizing in detachment from factual knowledge. It presents some of the pertinent results of the survey and then uses this as the point from which to review the changes in the protective system which the Commission has proposed to institute during 1978-1979. As the federal government elaborates its networks of control upon social research, investigators are both challenged and disconcerted, chastened and outraged. The foregoing applies equally well to the framing and enforcing of the federal regulations.
