ITM 407 Chapter 4: Chapter 4-Privacy.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 407
• Professor: Candace Grant

Document Summary

Privacy: chap 4: there have always been concerns about personal privacy long before the advent of computers. Impact that changes in technology have had on privacy: amount of personal info that can be collected, speed of which personal info that can be transmitted, kind of info that can be acquired and exchanged. Duration of the time that the information can be retained. Accessibility privacy: physically being let alone, being free from intrusion into one"s physical space. Decisional privacy: privacy defined as freedom from interference in one"s choices and decisions. Natural or descriptive privacy: when your privacy is in a regular situation, eg. Mary is working in a computer lab alone, she has descriptive privacy: privacy in a public place. Normative privacy: privacy in a private place, eg. Lab monitor follows mary home and peeps into her apartment. In both situations, lab monitor watches her, but the context of the situation makes the different.