Privacy Rights on the Internet: Self-Regulation or Government Regulation?

Bowie, Norman E.; Jamal, Karim

doi:10.5840/beq200616340

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“…The health care industry and the financial services industry are governed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) respectively, providing privacy protection for consumers in these industries (Bowie and Jamal, 2006). In December 1999, President Clinton issued a memorandum on Electronic Government which required all federal agencies to develop and post privacy policies on their Web sites.…”

Section: Privacy Protection Titlementioning

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“…According to Liu and Arnett (2002), more than twenty-five million children in the U.S. are on the Internet, therefore site owners should more actively address privacy protection related to children. Congress passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in 1998, setting rules for online collection of information on children (Bowie and Jamal, 2006). It requires online sites to secure parental consent before collect personal information from children under 13, and also forbids release of such information if it has been collected (Bhasin, 2006).…”

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An examination of privacy policies of US Government Senate websites

Kuzma

2010

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U.S. Government Web sites are rapidly increasing the services they offer, but users express concerns about their personal privacy protection. To earn user's trust, these sites must show that personal data is protected, and the sites contain explicit privacy policies. This research studied privacy policy protection of 50 U.S. Senate sites and found that few had comprehensive elements of privacy policies and a general lack of protection of personal data that could be obtain from the Web site. The study reviewed which specific privacy elements are most often mishandled, as well as suggestions for improving an overall online privacy practice.

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Section: Privacy Protection Titlementioning

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Section: Privacy Protection Titlementioning

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An examination of privacy policies of US Government Senate websites

Kuzma

2010

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“…Fair information principles (FIP), and in particular notice and choice, serve as one source of guidance for self-regulation within the industry (Culnan and Williams 2009;Bowie and Jamal 2006;Milne and Culnan 2002), and could be adapted to the mobile sector (Federal Trade Commission 2012). However, practical and philosophical problems persist.…”

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Putting mobile application privacy in context: An empirical study of user privacy expectations for mobile devices

Martin

Shilton

2016

The Information Society

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“…Alternatively, the control-view of privacy (Westin 1967;Alder et al 2007;Margulis 1977;Altman 1975;Moor 1997) suggests that relinquishing control of information to another party renders the individual without any reasonable expectation of privacy. Online, the control-view of privacy is regulated through adequate notice and choice in Fair Information Practices (FIPs; Bennett 1992; Ashworth and Free 2006;Peslak 2005;Culnan and Armstrong 1999;Bowie and Jamal 2006). FIPs allow for the contemporaneous disclosure of information and respect of privacy norms while online.…”

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Understanding Privacy Online: Development of a Social Contract Approach to Privacy

2015

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Recent scholarship in philosophy, law, and information systems suggests that respecting privacy entails understanding the implicit privacy norms about what, why, and to whom information is shared within specific relationships. These social contracts are important to understand if firms are to adequately manage the privacy expectations of stakeholders. This paper explores a social contract approach to developing, acknowledging, and protecting privacy norms within specific contexts. While privacy as a social contract-a mutually beneficial agreement within a community about sharing and using information-has been introduced theoretically and empirically, the full impact on firms of an alternative framework to respecting the privacy expectations of stakeholders has not been examined. The goal of this paper is to examine how privacy norms develop through social contract's narrative, to redescribe privacy violations given the social contract approach, and to critically examine the role of business as a contractor in developing privacy norms. A social contract narrative dealing specifically with issues of privacy is an important next step in exploring a social contract approach to privacy. Here, the narrative is used to explain to analyze the dynamic process of privacy norm generation within particular communities. Based on this narrative, individuals within a given community discriminately share information with a particular set of obligations in mind as to who has access to the information and how it will be used. Rather than giving away privacy, individuals discriminately share information within a particular community and with norms governing the use of their information. Similar to contractual business ethics' impact on global commerce in explaining how and why norms vary across global contexts, the social contract approach to privacy explains how and why norms vary across communities of actors. Focusing on agreements around privacy expectations shifts the responsibility of firms from adequate notification to the responsibility of firms as contractors to maintain a mutually beneficial and sustainable solution.

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Privacy Rights on the Internet: Self-Regulation or Government Regulation?

Cited by 74 publications

References 8 publications

An examination of privacy policies of US Government Senate websites

An examination of privacy policies of US Government Senate websites

Putting mobile application privacy in context: An empirical study of user privacy expectations for mobile devices

Understanding Privacy Online: Development of a Social Contract Approach to Privacy

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