Privacy in the Information Age: Stakeholders

Journal of Business Ethics, 1999

The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. All in-text references underlined in blue are added to the original document and are linked to publications on ResearchGate, letting you access and read them immediately. holders are persons or groups with legitimate interests, of intrinsic value, in the procedural and/or substantive aspects of the privacy/transparency claim and subsequent judgements on that basis. Using the principles of access, representation, and power, which flow from our framework of analysis, we show how they can facilitate the identification of potential privacy/transparency risks using examples from the British National Health Service.

International Data Privacy Law, 2011

Core Concepts and Contemporary Issues in Privacy, 2018

This article offers an account of the basis of the right to privacy that gives it stronger unity than the accounts currently available. It does so by showing that privacy is necessary for responsibility: one cannot assume responsibility for something without first articulating what it is that one is assuming responsibility for, and the right to privacy protects the "drafting space" in which to articulate it. This implies that we all have a direct stake in each other's privacy, unlike other accounts of privacy, which focus on why one's privacy is desirable to oneself. The article then proceeds to show how thinking about the right to privacy in this way can explain some of its features that otherwise appear puzzling and how it provides a theoretical tool for dealing with problems that involve privacy.

This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach to privacy. The sub- ject is examined from an ethical, social, and economic perspective reflecting the preliminary findings of the EU-funded research project PRESCIENT. The analy- sis will give a comprehensive illustration of the dimensions’ unique and charac- teristic features. This will build the basis for identifying overlaps and developing synergetic effects, which should ideally contribute to a better understanding of privacy.

International Data Privacy Law, 2013

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018

Snowden's revelations of 2013 have shifted attention to societal implications of surveillance practices and in particular privacy. This editorial reflects on key concepts and research questions raised in the issue. How can privacy be defined? Can it be designed? Considering such developments, this editorial asks if the public's attitudes to the sharing of data have moved towards, 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' arguments and if greater awareness and corporate transparency are possible. Even if corporate surveillance does not operate through overt coercion, it is argued that it yet results in self-regulation and subjugation to neoliberal rationality. Since telecoms and social media companies generally work hand in hand with the state and legal and practical standpoints boundaries overlap on a great scale, how can privacy be safeguarded for citizens? And where 'accountability' of data holders, as interviewee Mark Andrejevic suggests, is a growing imperative. Contributions to this issue suggest detailed attention to legal frameworks, encryption practices, definitions of the surveilled subject and the history of such scrutiny may hold some of the answers.

In this paper we explore the extent to which privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) could be effective in providing privacy to citizens. Rapid development of ubiquitous computing and 'the internet of things' are leading to Big Data and the application of Predictive Analytics, effectively merging the real world with cyberspace. The power of information technology is increasingly used to provide personalised services to citizens, leading to the availability of huge amounts of sensitive data about individuals, with potential and actual privacy-eroding effects. To protect the private sphere, deemed essential in a state of law, information and communication systems (ICTs) should meet the requirements laid down in numerous privacy regulations. Sensitive personal information may be captured by organizations, provided that the person providing the information consents to the information being gathered, and may only be used for the express purpose the information was gathered for. Any other use of information about persons without their consent is prohibited by law; notwithstanding legal exceptions. If regulations are properly translated into written code, they will be part of the outcomes of an ICT, and that ICT will therefore be privacy compliant. We conclude that privacy compliance in the 'technological' sense cannot meet citizens' concerns completely, and should therefore be augmented by a conceptual model to make privacy impact assessments at the level of citizens' lives possible.

This paper discusses the results of the research project 'Privacy and Anonymity on the Net (PRIANO, 2014–2016)', which tries to chart the fate of online privacy in Finland after the Snowden revelations and during the ongoing law-making process. From interviews (n = 17) conducted with Finnish experts, we identified three frames of opinion (national security, business, and fundamental rights) and analysed their values and strategies of justification. I also conducted a survey (n = 1000) on Finns' opinions about online privacy and compared the results with those of similar surveys in the U.S. and Estonia. The survey findings indicated that Finnish internet users still value privacy. Finally, in the conclusive part, I reflect on the empirical results based on the theoretical literature on surveillance capitalism and the fate of social trust and democracy.

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