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
Are there other examples of such implicitly made public policy? Yes, indeed.
The most obvious one underlies the entire discussion of contemporary privacy.
The present information industry has made it de facto public policy that use
of personal information without pre-knowledge of the data subject, without visibility
to the data subject, and totally outside his control is appropriate behavior
for profit-making industry. It is a complete negation of the Fair Code of Information
Practices except in the few instances for which law happens to have been passed.
Without doubt, it is time to realize that the private sector has become a very
prominent “opponent and potential source of problems” in terms of
how personal information is used, what effect it has on people, how widely it
is shared, and the implicit public policy that is being made. We surely now
must put the private sector and the government on equal terms so far as utilization
and exploitation of personal information is concerned, each with potential for
abuse and misuse, and each with different effects on public policy and social
mores.
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