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Privacy Revisited: From Lady Godiva’s Peeping Tom to Facebook’s Beacon Program

Privacy Revisited: From Lady Godiva’s Peeping Tom to Facebook’s Beacon Program
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Author(s): Kirsten Martin (The Catholic University of America, USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 17
Source title: Ethical Issues in E-Business: Models and Frameworks
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Daniel E. Palmer (Kent State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-615-5.ch010

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Abstract

The underlying concept of privacy has not changed for centuries, but our approach to acknowledging privacy in our transactions, exchanges, and relationships must be revisited as our technological environment – what we can do with information – has evolved. The goal of this chapter is to focus on the debate over the definition of privacy as it is required for other debates and has direct implications to how we recognize, test, and justify privacy in scholarship and practice. I argue privacy is best viewed as the ability of an individual to control information within a negotiated zone. I illustrate this view of privacy through an analysis of Facebook’s Beacon program and place the case in the context of both privacy violations and successful business strategies. I find privacy zones are illuminating for situations from 10th century England to current social networking programs and are useful in identifying mutually beneficial solutions among stakeholders.

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