In this paper we present details of a critical requirement of many systems, namely, trust. Trust is one of the oldest issues that has taken a new incarnation with advent of the Internet. In the context of the Internet and the scientific and commercial applications it has enabled, definition of trust stands to be rewritten and reviewed. Our research indicates that privacy, identity management, a...

In this paper, we describe an information science approach to drafting information privacy laws. Information scientists can contribute to the design of these laws not as mere technical experts, but rather as collaborators in design and construction of the legal text. Specifically, this paper concentrates on rules governing the handling of personal identifiable information (PII). First, we devel...

In the U.S., there is no comprehensive national law regulating the collection and use of personal information. As a response to the high level of privacy concerns among U.S. citizens and the currently limited regulations, states have enacted their own privacy laws over and above the principles of Fair Information Practices (FIP). In this exploratory study, we draw upon the privacy literature an...

As the clinical implications of the genetic components of disease come to be better understood, there is likely to be a significant increase in the volume of genetic information held within clinical records. As patient health care records, in turn, come on-line as part of broader health information networks, there is likely to be considerable pressure in favour of special laws protecting geneti...

The extension of privacy laws to cover private sector providers and the proposal of a National Health Privacy Code highlight the importance of examining privacy issues in aged care policy and practice. Although privacy in health and aged care may also include physical, psychological and social dimensions, it is informational privacy that is the focus of these recent changes. In this paper a ran...

Strengthening the user perception of privacy and trust on the Internet will require userfocused technological approaches, enforceable privacy laws, and business interventions. We propose a novel user-focused business model for privacy with a supporting client-side e-privacy architecture. The e-privacy business model is detailed in terms of target markets and stakeholders, value or revenue model...

It is commonplace for organisations to collect personal information to be processed and stored on their systems. Until recently, there was no comprehensive legislation that addressed the ‘processing’ of personal information by organisations in South Africa. The Protection of Personal Information Bill (“POPI”) was signed into law in November 2013 and is expected to come into effect, later this y...

The paper operationalizes the concept of privacy by design for social network sites (SNS), defined as evaluating and embedding privacy in the development and adjustment of SNS technology. More in particular we identify the necessary social requirements of SNS in order to optimize the privacy from a user perspective. For this, one of the application domains of privacy by design, the seven laws o...

BY PAUL M. SCHWARTZ AND DANIEL J. SOLOVE P ersonally Identifiable Information (PII) is one of the most central concepts in privacy regulation. It defines the scope and boundaries of a large range of privacy statutes and regulations. Numerous federal statutes turn on this distinction. Similarly, many state statutes also rely on PII as a jurisdictional trigger. These laws all share the same basic...

Privacy” is an ambiguous notion, encompassing personal autonomy, democratic participation, identity management, and social coordination. Each of these privacy ideals reflect different sets of social concerns. Laws operationalize privacy in terms of “personally identifiable information.” Technologies reify that definition. This has implications for the constitution of identity and social life. I...