Privacy And Anonymity And Information Network Technologies

Part I of Essay
We might assume that nothing new could be said about the issue of privacy behond the basic notion that it is something secluded from the inclusion of others, a virtue and right that every citizen of a democratic society might possess. However, if that were actually the cas ....

Part II of Essay
.... with regards to the issue of who owns and controls this information. The information age has been a period that has allowed rights to privacy to beocme seriously jeopardized by new information technologies. Richard A. Spinello, has defined two distinct phases to the systematic erosion of information privacy. The first he calls the 'data base phase'. The emergence of sophisticatd data base technology in the early eighties made it possible to store and retrieve large amounts of information efficiently and economically ....