Chapter 2. Defining Privacy: Social and Legal Aspects
In the 1890s, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis defined the concept of privacy as an individual's “right to be left alone.” Brandeis said that privacy was the most cherished of freedoms of a democracy. If Justice Brandeis could see the state of our personal privacy today, he would have a heart attack.
The two forms of privacy we are concerned with in this book are
Information privacy— Rules governing the collection and handling of personal data, such as credit information, personal preferences, home address information, and medical records. Closely tied to this concept is security of private data and privacy of communications.
Privacy of communications— The security and privacy of mail, ...
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