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Fulfilling Government 2.0'S Promise With Robust Privacy Protections, Danielle K. Citron
Fulfilling Government 2.0'S Promise With Robust Privacy Protections, Danielle K. Citron
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The public can now “friend” the White House and scores of agencies on social networks, virtual worlds, and video-sharing sites. The Obama Administration sees this trend as crucial to enhancing governmental transparency, public participation, and collaboration. As the President has underscored, government needs to tap into the public’s expertise because it doesn’t have all of the answers.
To be sure, Government 2.0 might improve civic engagement. But it also might produce privacy vulnerabilities because agencies often gain access to individuals’ social network profiles, photographs, videos, and contact lists when interacting with individuals online. Little would prevent agencies from using and …
Visionary Pragmatism And The Value Of Privacy In The Twenty-First Century, Danielle K. Citron, Leslie Henry
Visionary Pragmatism And The Value Of Privacy In The Twenty-First Century, Danielle K. Citron, Leslie Henry
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Despite extensive scholarly, legislative, and judicial attention to privacy, our understanding of privacy and the interests it protects remains inadequate. At the crux of this problem is privacy’s protean nature: it means “so many different things to so many different people” that attempts to articulate just what it is, or why it is important, generally have failed or become unwieldy. As a result, important privacy problems remain unaddressed, often to society’s detriment.
In his newest book, Understanding Privacy, Daniel J. Solove aims to reverse this state of affairs with a pluralistic conception of privacy that recognizes the societal value of …