Privacy, Secrecy, and Security

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P. Thompson

Tech report number

CERIAS TR 2000-18

Entry type

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Abstract

I will argue that one class of issues in computer ethics often associated with privacy and a punative right to privacy is best-analyzed in terms that make no substantive reference to privacy at all. These issues concern the way that networked information technology creates new ways in which conventional rights to personal security can be threatened. However one choses to analyze rights, rights to secure person and property will be among the most basic, the least controversial and the most universally recognized. A risk based approach to these issues provides a clearer statement of what is ethically important, as well as what is ethically problematic. Once the issues of security have articulated clearly, it becomes possible to make out genuine issues of privacy in contrast to them.

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Thompson

Affiliation

Purdue University

Publication Date

1900-01-01

Keywords

privacy, data-security, logical security, personal security, risk

Language

English

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	author = "P. Thompson",
	abstract = "I will argue that one class of issues in computer ethics often associated with privacy and a punative right to privacy is best-analyzed in terms that make no substantive reference to privacy at all.  These issues concern the way that networked information technology creates new ways in which conventional rights to personal security can be threatened.  However one choses to analyze rights, rights to secure person and property will be among the most basic, the least controversial and the most universally recognized.  A risk based  approach to these issues provides a clearer statement of what is ethically important, as well as what is ethically problematic.  Once the issues of security have articulated clearly, it becomes possible to make out genuine issues of privacy in contrast to them.",
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	language = "English",
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