Contemporary Privacy Issues

Willis H. Ware

1. Introduction
2. Historical Development
3. United States Posture
4. Source of the Problem
5. Privacy as a Public Policy Issue
6. Contemporary Privacy
6.1 Current Example
7. Public Policy Again
7.1 An Illustration – CNI
8. The Broadened Public Issue
9. Possible Approaches to Protection
10. Related Effects
11. Privacy as Social Equity
12. New Privacy Versus Old
13. Context for New Privacy
14. Privacy Versus Public Distaste
15. The Future for Privacy
16. References

References

1. Paul Baran, “Communications, Computers and People,” The RAND Corporation, P-3235, November 1965. Also: AFIPS Conference Proceedings, Vol. 27, Part II, 1967 Fall Joint Computer Conference, Spartan Books, Washington,D. C.

2. Alan Westin and Michael Baker, Databanks in A Free Society,
Quadrangle Press, 1972.

3. Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens, Report of the
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, DHEW Publication (OS)73 – 94, July 1973. Contains a good bibliography.

4. Personal Privacy in an Information Society, the Report of the
Privacy Protection Study Commission, July, 1977. There are also five appendices on specialized topics, including a discussion of the 1974 Privacy Act had been working.

5. “Compilation of State and Federal Privacy Laws,” The Privacy Journal, Washington, D. C., 1989.

6. San Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 1991; pg. C1 [Reuters]. Paraphrased in RISKS DIGEST, Vol. 12, Issue 05, July 11, 1991.

7. Excerpted from the advertising literature of the product announcement by Lotus Development Corporation, plus facts elicited through correspondence with the company and shared via electronic mail.

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