LaVonne Maupins's List: Privacy

• (Westin AF, Privacy and Freedom New York: Atheneum, 1967, page 7).
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  Privacy may be defined as  the claim of individuals, groups or institutions to determine when, how and to  what extent information about them is communicated to others
• Privacy is your right to  control what happens with personal information about you.

   

   
• The use of the Internet can  affect the privacy rights a person has in his or her identity or personal data.  Internet use and transactions generate a large amount of personal information which  provide insights into your personality and interests.
   
   
   
  Privacy issues relating to identity include the possible  appropriation of a person’s email identity and address.
   
   
   
   
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    Ease of access to and the appropriation  of email addresses has led to the practice of sending vast amounts of  unsolicited e-mails (spam).
     
   
   
   
   
   
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    Identification through email and  website transactions and the ability to locate people’s physical addresses  easily through national and international directories have raised new  privacy concerns.
• Privacy issues relating to personal data arise from
   
   
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    insecure electronic transmissions,
     
   
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    data trails and logs of email messages, 
     
   
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    online transactions and the
     
   
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    tracking of web pages visited.
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  Privacy invasion issues  arise from data matching (the  process of wholesale cross checking of data from one source against another  source such as tax and social security data) and personal profile extraction  processes which use this data alone or in combination with other publicly  available data.

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• To be precise, the Privacy Act definition of personal information is:

  "... information or an opinion (including information or an opinio
• n forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about a
• whose
• individual
• identity
• apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion."

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