The "Transparent" Knowledge Worker and Locational Privacy

keywords: knowledge management locational data privacy organizational learning weblogs klogs reputation systems authenticity Jo Ann Oravec is an Associate Professor in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater (USA). She received her MBA, MA, MS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She taught computer information systems and public policy at Baruch College of the City University of New York and also taught in the School of Business and the Computer Sciences Department at UW-Madison. In the 1990s, she chaired the Privacy Council of the State of Wisconsin, the nation's first state-level council dealing with information technology and privacy issues. She has written several books (including "Virtual Individuals, Virtual Groups: Human Dimensions of Groupware and Computer Networking," Cambridge University Press and "Home as Information Space: Electronic Commerce and the Domestication of Computer Networking," forthcoming) and more than fifty articles on computing technology issues. She has worked for public television and developed software along with her academic ventures.