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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
So the picture in the United States has been that of a little attention here, a little there, a little at the Federal level, a little in many states. There has been no comprehensive overarching law as in European countries; in fact, some people in other countries hold that the U.S. behavior is an embarrassment to the world’s interest in privacy protection.
Keep in mind the general computing environment scene of the time; it was that of the stand-alone system, not networked, and generally batch accessed. Given such a state-of-art, the DHEW committee did not really address the consequences of fast moving computer and communications technology. It remains to be determined whether a Fair Code, appropriate to the circumstances of the time, is an adequate or proper approach in a highly networked situation, particularly when the networking is between different business organizations, often on a dial-up transaction basis, and sometimes only for sporadic occasional data exchanges. A current example of today’s practice is the point-of-sale system linking with a check-verification or bank-card system for only the duration of a single transaction.
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