What if a formal model isn’t possible? Privacy may be impossible to isolate from other human values and ideals such as trust, justice or spirituality. Attempting to model it allows for quick (and painless?) failure. A formal model does not allow for a detailed consideration of, for example, the given harms in an informational disclosure treating …
People collected personal information before information technology; on paper, the most sensitive of which might be stored in a vault somewhere. Now, much of this personal information is in digital form stored on computers that are more likely than not connected to millions of other computers. Even some machine generated data contains information is used for …
The topic of privacy appears in many traditional academic disciplines, and of late, in the world of pop culture. “That is a source of strength, for it raises the profile of privacy as a value, an interest and a right” (Raab, 2008). Exploring these intersects gives a hint at the range of both scholarly and non-scholarly work …