| Beyond Secrecy: New Privacy Protection Strategies for the World Wide Web ⋆ (2009) | |||||||||||||||
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| In 1967, Alan Westin [1] set in motion the foundations of what most Western democracies now think of as privacy when he published his book, Privacy and Freedom. He defined privacy as ”the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others. ” His careful collection of sociological, legal, and historical perspectives on privacy came at a time when people worried that human dignity would erode or that governments would tend toward tyranny, becoming tempted to misuse their newfound power over private data. Computer scientists shared these concerns. Following Westin’s emphasis on privacy as confidentiality, much of the security and privacy research over the last four decades has concentrated on developing more and more robust access control and confidentiality mechanisms. Today, despite the fact that technical innovation in cryptography and network security has enabled all manner of confidentiality control over the exposure of identity in information systems, the vast majority of Internet user remain deeply | |||||||||||||||
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