1 Innovating Government – an introduction to the book -- Part I Normative and ethical dimensions -- 2  Privacy 3.0 -- 3 Normative assumptions in biometrics – on bodily differences and automated classifications -- 4 Electronic exchange of signals on youth at risk – a value perspective -- 5 Regulating invisible harms -- Part II Policy dimensions – Democracy -- 6 The single point of failure -- 7 Electronic voting: Approaches, strategies, and policy issues – a report from Switzerland -- 8 Striving behind the shadow – the dawn of Spanish politics 2.0 -- Part III Policy dimensions - Surveillance -- 9 The normality of living in surveillance societies -- 10 The evolution of new technologies of surveillance in children’s services in England -- 11 Electronic Child Records in the Netherlands – a legitimate path to right wrongs? -- 12 Legitimacy issues regarding citizen surveillance – the case of ANPR-technology in Dutch policing -- 13 The introduction of biometrics in the Netherlands – an evaluation under data protection and administrative law -- Part IV Legal dimensions – EU Law perspectives -- 14 The use of biometrics at the borders – a European policy and law perspective -- 15 Privacy and data protection aspects of e-government identity management -- 16 eHealth from a Dutch perspective -- 17 Implementation of the EU Services Directive: on eGovernment in a decentralized unitary state -- 18 The impact of Europe on geo-information -- Part V Legal dimensions - Techno-legal perspectives -- 19 Sharing information between government agencies – some legal challenges associated with semantic interoperability -- 20 Public information infrastructures and identity fraud -- 21 Access to law in Europe -- Part VI Legal dimensions - Law and philosophy perspective -- 22 Identity theft and fraud -- Part VII Technological dimensions -- 23 Biometrics and smart cards in identity management -- 24 How devices transform voting -- Part VIII Synthesis -- 25 A Brave New Government?.

The aim of this book is to analyze four dimensions of innovating government and the use of new technologies: legal, ethical, policy and technological dimensions. By joining authors from a diversity of backgrounds (law, ethics, public administration, political science, sociology, communications science, information science, and computer science) in one book, readers (academics, policy makers, legislators and others) are confronted with a variety of disciplinary perspectives on persistent themes, like privacy, biometrics, surveillance, e-democracy, electronic government, and identity management, that are central to today’s evolution of new modes of modern government.