Reviewing Privacy in an Information Society

Protecting Information Privacy in the Electronic Society

The privacy of users, the confidentiality of organizations, and the protection of huge collections of sensitive information, possibly related to data that might be released publicly or semi-publicly for various purposes, are essential requirements for the today’s Electronic Society. In this chapter, we discuss the main privacy concerns that arise when releasing information to third parties. In ...

Protest in an Information Society

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Information, Communication, and Society following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Garrett, R. K. (2006). Protest in an Information Society: A Review of Literature on Social Movements and New ICTs. Information, Communication and Society, 9(2), 202-224.] is available online at: h...

Privacy and the Computer: Why We Need Privacy in the Information Society

For more than thirty years an extensive and significant philosophical debate about the notion of privacy has been going on. Therefore it seems puzzling that most current authors on information technology and privacy assume that all individuals intuitively know why privacy is important. This assumption allows privacy to be seen as a liberal “nice to have” value: something that can easily be disc...

Reviewing Security and Privacy Aspects in Combined Mobile Information System (CMIS) for health care systems

Medical area has been benefited by the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in recent days. CMIS (Combined Mobile Information System), our proposed model system, is such a system targeted for health care system. IMIS (Integrated Mobile Information System), a system for diabetic healthcare, which is being developed in Blekinge Institute of Technology will be taken as a case stud...

Ethical Values for E-Society: Information, Security and Privacy