Consumers’ Need of Privacy Protection – Experimental Results

CADMIUM CONFUSION: Do Consumers Need Protection?

Consumer protection and managed care: the need for organized consumers.

Despite its many advantages, managed care creates new problems for consumers. Activists have proposed four types of remedies: (1) increased information and choice; (2) standards for services and marketing; (3) administrative oversight; and (4) procedural due process for complaints. Each approach offers some benefits, but they are insufficient to cope with consumer problems. What is lacking is e...

Technological Ubiquity: The Need for Consumer Privacy Protection

The marriage of computer and telecommunications technologies has created a new electronic networking environment on which business and services are delivered. Today, anyone who has a connection to the Internet is able to access easily an abundance of information that is made available online. No doubt, the technological advancement will eventually transform the way many organizations operate an...

580 Protection of Privacy

Balyard had stopped off at the local personnel office for the name of a representative American in the neighborhood. The personnel machines had considered the problem and ejected the card of E. R. B. Hagstrohm, who was statistically average in every respect save for the number of his initials: his age (36), his height (5'7"), his weight (148 lbs.), his years of marriage (11), his I.Q. (83), the...

The Need for Privacy

Privacy has become a critical issue on the Internet. Dr. Alan Westin, Professor of Public Law at Columbia University defined privacy as “the claim of individuals, groups and institutions to determine for themselves, when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others” in his pioneering work on Freedom and Privacy [21] that prompted global privacy movements in many demo...