Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world

Palen, Leysia; Dourish, Paul

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“…The part of one's life lived apart from society was not highly valued in some ancient societies (Hixon, 1987) and strong emphasis was placed on social involvement. Palen & Dourish (2003) call this the disclosure boundary tension (4.d.vii): a tension between one wanting/needing/choosing/being private versus public. This tension carries over to VMS design.…”

Section: Perspectives On Privacymentioning

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“…This control is afforded by environmental constraints to interactivity. Technology confounds privacy control by lifting or changing these constraints (Palen & Dourish, 2003;Grudin, 2001) and affords new degrees of temporal and spatial freedom for information access (5.c.i) (Palen & Dourish, 2003). There is an implicit assumption that there are some times when some people-who may or may not be part of the VMS community-go out of their way to violate others' privacy.…”

Section: Privacy Violationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Collectively, this vocabulary creates a de-scriptive 'theory' about factors affection privacy and its perception. This vocabulary is grounded atop a broad base formed out of others' theoretical descriptions of privacy, i.e., Altman (1975), Bellotti (1998), Palen & Dourish (2003), and Schwartz (1968). The vocabulary explanations below distil concepts explained in detail in our own prior work (Boyle, Tables 1 -5 outline the vocabulary of terms that will be discussed throughout the chapter.…”

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Privacy Factors in Video-Based Media Spaces

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2009

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Media space research is accompanied by a long-standing debate on the value of awareness leading to casual interaction vs. its potential for intended or unintended privacy invasion. This is not just a matter of technology: the trade-off between the two depends very much on the social makeup of the people using the space, how cameras are actually situated, the kinds of activities that typically happen in the space, and so on. This chapter offers a framework-a descriptive theory-that defines how one can think of privacy while analyzing media spaces and their expected or actual use. The framework outlines existing perspectives on privacy and then decomposes privacy into three normative controls for regulating interpersonal boundaries in an embodied dialectic: solitude, confidentiality and autonomy. By considering the nuances of these controls, this theory yields a powerful vocabulary of terms that disambiguate the many interrelated and subtle meanings of "privacy."

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Section: Perspectives On Privacymentioning

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2009

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“…Westin [1967] describes practices such as covering one's face, averting others' eyes, or facing the wall. As Palen and Dourish [2003] point out, "Privacy is understood to be under continuous negotiation and management, with the boundary that distinguishes privacy and publicity refined according to circumstance".…”

Section: Relationship Between Awareness and Privacymentioning

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“…For instance, Boyle and Greenberg [2005] describe a vocabulary of privacy that designers can employ for an unambiguous discussion of privacy issues. To suggest ways of thinking about privacy in socio-technical environments, Palen and Dourish [2003] outline a model of privacy that is based on the theory of social psychologist Irwin Altman. It views privacy as a process that regulates the boundaries of disclosure, identity and temporality.…”

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Privacy Considerations in Awareness Systems: Designing with Privacy in Mind

Patil

Kobsa

2009

Human-Computer Interaction Series

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Privacy as a fuzzy concept: A new conceptualization of privacy for practitioners

Vasalou

Joinson

Houghton

2014

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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In recent years, technological innovation has re-ignited an interest in privacy as designers, policy makers, and users each strive to reconcile the advantages of technology with the new demands they pose for privacy. Driven by a classic approach to defining concepts, scholars have not been able to agree on a unified definition of privacy. This poses a barrier to those who seek to implement privacy through their decisions. A critical component of their work involves anticipating and responding to potential privacy risks. In choosing one definition over another, practitioners might be missing nuanced contextual overlaps that bear on privacy and thus bias their subsequent decisions. For these practical endeavors, it is important to adopt an inclusive and rich definition. Such a definition should also be responsive to how those affected by decisions that might compromise privacy, namely citizens and technology users, conceive of privacy. The present paper applies a prototype perspective on privacy that acknowledges the fuzziness of concepts and goes on to develop such a definition in a series of empirical studies. The relevance of the privacy prototype is then explored as it applies to privacy theorists, practitioners, and methodologists, suggesting new avenues for future research.

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Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world

Cited by 219 publications

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Privacy Factors in Video-Based Media Spaces

Privacy Factors in Video-Based Media Spaces

Privacy Considerations in Awareness Systems: Designing with Privacy in Mind

Privacy as a fuzzy concept: A new conceptualization of privacy for practitioners

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