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Principles Of Internet Privacy, Fred H. Cate
Principles Of Internet Privacy, Fred H. Cate
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The definition of privacy developed by Brandeis and Warren and Prosser, and effectively codified by Alan Westin in 1967 - the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others - worked well in a world in which most privacy concerns involved physical intrusions (usually by the government) or public disclosures (usually by the media), which, by their very nature, were comparatively rare and usually discovered.
But that definition's exclusive focus on individual control has grown incomplete in a world in which most privacy concerns involve …