• DocumentCode
    9732
  • Title

    Are We Getting Privacy the Wrong Way Round?

  • Author

    O´Hara, Kieron

  • Author_Institution
    Electron. & Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  • Volume
    17
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    July-Aug. 2013
  • Firstpage
    89
  • Lastpage
    92
  • Abstract
    Individualists, communitarians, and technological determinists agree that privacy´s benefits accrue to individuals, and that its costs (in terms of less security or efficiency) fall on society. As such, it is the individual´s choice to give privacy away. However, privacy does benefit wider society in important respects, and so this consensus is flawed.
  • Keywords
    data privacy; communitarian; individualist; privacy; technological determinist; Communities; Data privacy; Information sharing; Internet; Philosophical considerations; Social implications of technology; communitarianism; individualism; privacy; profiling; social networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Internet Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7801
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MIC.2013.62
  • Filename
    6547595