Human rights in an information age : a philosophical analysis / Gregory J. Walters.

Introduction : The information age revolution -- Purpose and methodology-- Three ethical challenges of Canadian Informaiton Highway Policy -- Aims and terminological presuppositions -- The conceptual importance of information to human rights -- Philosophical parameters and thesis -- Structure of the book -- The Philosophical framework : The information age in the context of modernity -- Human rights in the information age -- Information highway policy and e-commerce strategy : The public policy product cycle -- Historical and sociological specification of Canadian Communications Policy -- Industry Canada and the InformationHighway Advisory Council -- IHAC policy phase I: 1993-95 -- IHAC policy phase II: 1996-98 -- IHAC policy phase III: the Canadian electronic commerce strategy -- Methodological and ethical analysis -- The information economy, work, and productive agency : Productive agency, work, and human capital -- Two justificationsof private property -- Inequality and the restriction of property right