Social and Political Dimensions of Privacy
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- 29 April 2003
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Social Issues
- Vol. 59 (2) , 431-453
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-4560.00072
Abstract
This article provides a framework for analyzing privacy in modern societies, defining information privacy and describing three levels that structure the values assigned to privacy. After describing a contemporary privacy baseline (1945–1960), these concepts are applied to social and political privacy developments in three contemporary eras of steadily growing privacy concerns and societal responses across citizen‐government, employee‐employer, and consumer‐business relationships in 1961–1979, 1980–1989, and 1990–2002. Each period is described in terms of new technology applications, changing social climates, and organizational and legal developments. Effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on privacy balances are analyzed and predictions for future privacy developments are presented. The relationship of articles in this issue to the author's framework is noted throughout.Keywords
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