Computers, Personal Data, and Theories of Technology

Comparative Approaches to Privacy Protection in the 1990s

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5163085
AutoresColin J Bennett (0000-0002-1503-8584, University of Victoria, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen16
Número1
Páginas51-69
Fecha de publicación1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/016224399101600103
OpenAlexW2140176638
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas22

Public policies designed to regulate the use of information technology to protect personal data have been based on different theoretical assumptions in different states, depending on whether the problem is defined in technological, civil libertarian, or bureaucratic terms. However, the rapid development, dispersal, and decentralization of information technology have facilitated a range of new surveillance practices that have in turn rendered the approaches of the 1960s and 1970s obsolete. The networking of the postindustrial state will require a reconceptualization of the dynamic relationship between organizational practices and information technology and a more comprehensive appreciation of the privacy problem. With the call for the development of a more coherent information policy in a number of countries, there is evidence that policymakers have been taking this more holistic view

Bureaucracy · Business · Computer security · Data Protection Act 1998 · Decentralization · Information privacy · Information technology · Internet privacy · Knowledge management · Personally identifiable information · Political science · Post-industrial society · Privacy by Design · Privacy policy · Public relations · Computer Science · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies · Law · Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection