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Tactful Inattention: Erving Goffman, Privacy In The Digital Age, And The Virtue Of Averting One's Eyes, Elizabeth De Armond
Tactful Inattention: Erving Goffman, Privacy In The Digital Age, And The Virtue Of Averting One's Eyes, Elizabeth De Armond
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Ispy: Threats To Individual And Institutional Privacy In The Digital World, Lori Andrews
Ispy: Threats To Individual And Institutional Privacy In The Digital World, Lori Andrews
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What type of information is collected, who is viewing it, and what law librarians can do to protect their patrons and institutions.
Self, Privacy, And Power: Is It All Over?, Richard Warner, Robert H. Sloan
Self, Privacy, And Power: Is It All Over?, Richard Warner, Robert H. Sloan
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The realization of a multifaceted self is an ideal one strives to realize. One realizes such a self in large part through interaction with others in various social roles. Such realization requires a significant degree of informational privacy. Informational privacy is the ability to determine for yourself when others may collect and how they may use your information. The realization of multifaceted selves requires informational privacy in public. There is no contradiction here: informational privacy is a matter of control, and you can have such control in public. Current information processing practices greatly reduce privacy in public thereby threatening the …
Undermined Norms: The Corrosive Effect Of Information Processing Technology On Informational Privacy, Richard Warner
Undermined Norms: The Corrosive Effect Of Information Processing Technology On Informational Privacy, Richard Warner
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Informational privacy is a matter of control; it consists in the ability to control when one’s personal information is collected, how it is used, and to whom it is distributed. The degree of control we once enjoyed has vanished. Advances in information processing technology now give others considerable power to determine when personal information is collected, how it is used, and to it is whom distributed. Privacy advocates sound the alarm in regard to both the governmental and private sectors. I focus exclusively on the later. Relying on the extensive privacy advocate literature, I assume we should try to regain …
Newsgathering In Light Of Hipaa, Alexander A. Boni-Saenz
Newsgathering In Light Of Hipaa, Alexander A. Boni-Saenz
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This short piece examines the interaction between the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), a federal law designed to protect the privacy of individuals’ health information, and state Freedom of Information (FOI) laws, which are designed to ensure public access to government documents. It describes three recent cases from different states that addressed difficult issues about where and how to draw the line between the public’s right to know and individuals’ rights to keep their medical information secret. It concludes that questions about the interaction of state FOI laws and HIPAA should be guided by the framework suggested in …