Privacy, Identity, Databases: Toward A New Conception Of The Consumer Privacy Discourse
- Topics:
- Case Management
- Tags:
- Consumer Information,
- Database,
- Identity,
- Privacy,
- Security
- Source:
- Stanford Knowledgebase
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Overview: This article argues that the current discourse on privacy has failed to articulate a compelling rationale for protecting consumer information. Moreover, most legal scholars rely on models of informational privacy that poorly fit the context of consumer information collection. It also proposes a new model for protecting consumer information, which incorporates both the cultural meaning of data collection and the basic principles of privacy law. This paper concludes that privacy scholars and activists must articulate a more sophisticated rationale for limiting access to consumer information. In other words, the perspective allows the consumer privacy discourse to move beyond a "none-of-their-business" rationale and towards articulating a more viable rationale for protecting consumer information. Therefore, discussion of privacy must center on the particular practices that are being disclosed, particular expressive identities that are being forcibly shared with third parties.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
