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  • From: "saundrakaerubel.com" <saundrakae AT saundrakaerubel.com>
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  • Subject: Where everybody knows your name: a pragmatic look at the costs of privacy and the benefits of information exchange (article)
  • Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:48:36 -0500


Where everybody knows your name: a pragmatic look at the costs of privacy and the benefits of information exchange
By Kent Walker
General Counsel, Liberate Technologies
Abstract:
"Contemporary privacy discussions too often assume that more privacy is necessarily better and limit the debate to a bipolar continuum pitting businesses against consumers. Kent Walker maintains that this view is too limited. In constructing new and better privacy protections, we risk neglecting the implicit costs of privacy. The contemporary concept of information privacy embodies an ethic of individualism that shortchanges more traditional notions of community and the public good.
The author examines the benefits which flow from the sharing of personal information, such as consumer benefits, certainty and security, and the fostering of community, and proposes a hierarchy of protection for various types of personal information. He then examines the difficulties involved in implementing a regulatory structure for the protection of privacy by considering the European Union's Privacy Directive."
To view the article, visit http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Articles/00_STLR_2/index.htm





  • Where everybody knows your name: a pragmatic look at the costs of privacy and the benefits of information exchange (article), saundrakaerubel.com, 12/11/2000

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