Privacy and security at risk in the global information society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20509838 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simone Fischer‐Hübner (0000-0002-6938-4466, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 420-441 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Information Communication & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-118X • E-ISSN: 1468-4462 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691189809358981 |
| OpenAlex | W1490754248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
In the global information society, individual privacy is seriously endangered. An increasing amount of personal data is being transferred around the world, and communication data of users could be easily traced and used to create individual communication using new information infrastructures. With contemporary network technologies, it is difficult to protect personal data adequately. The Internet, as an important contemporary information highway, is missing essential features of reliability, functionality, confidentiality and integrity, and is threatened by various security attacks. This paper discusses privacy and security risks in the global information society. It also compares and critically analyses the approaches to privacy protection of different information infrastructure programmes. The difficulties for a common harmonised legal approach to privacy protection, due to cultural differences, are analysed. Finally, possibilities for designing information infrastructures adequate under social and privacy requirements (in particular privacy‐enhancing technologies) are discussed
Business · Computer security · Confidentiality · Information privacy · Information security · Information sensitivity · Information society · Internet privacy · Personally identifiable information · Political science · Privacy by Design · Privacy software · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2025 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |