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Public opinion surveys and the formation of privacy policy
- Author:
- GANDY Osacr H.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Issues, 59(2), July 2003, pp.283-299.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The laws that condition the boundaries that separate the public from the private spheres shape our expectations of privacy. Public opinion helps to shape the development and implementation of those laws. Commercial firms in the information-intensive industries have been the primary sponsors of public opinion surveys introduced into testimony as assessments of the public's will. Representatives of business and consumer organizations have relied upon the same industry-sponsored surveys to frame their arguments in support of or in opposition to specific privacy policies. In the past 25 years, references to public opinion have been used to frame the public as concerned, differentiated and, most recently, as willing to negotiate their privacy demands.
Making Offenders Visible
- Authors:
- THOMAS Terry, THOMPSON David
- Journal article citation:
- Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 49(4), September 2010, pp.340-348.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In December 2009 the UK Home Office announced the government’s new policy of publicising the criminal court judgments on individual offenders to the local communities in which those offenders live. The Home Office stated that this is public information obtained from the public forum of the criminal court, and that such publicising is merely enhancing the job previously carried out by local reporters and newspapers covering the local criminal court. The initiative follows the 2008 Casey report that aimed to find ways to reassure the general public on matters of confidence in the criminal justice system. The authors discuss how this initiative might work in practice, based on earlier experiences of making offenders more visible to the communities from which they come.
Privacy, social network sites, and social relations
- Authors:
- HOUGHTON David J., JOINSON Adam N.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Technology in Human Services, 28(1-2), January 2010, pp.74-94.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper reviews, with the growth of the internet and commonality of Web 2.0 applications, the history and development of social networking sites (SNS) in the last decade, and the consequent information sharing between ‘friends’ and privacy issues that have evolved, under headings of ‘social networking and privacy’, ‘privacy and new technology’, privacy of social networking sites’ and ‘types of relationship tie’. It also details a study, using an open and unstructured approach, of 8 individuals (aged 24 to 32 years) asked to define friendship, privacy and privacy violations with regard to their use of SNS, and analyses their responses thematically. Of the 8 privacy violations tabulated in detail, 5 specifically related to SNS and 3 to off line violations (which did involve technology in some form). From the range of privacy issues discussed thematic analysis revealed broader categories, or recurring themes of privacy violations, and concepts of friendship, which are also tabulated and are further discussed under ‘issues of control’, ‘boundary expectancies and uncertainties’, ‘initial startle/shock reaction’, ‘time and a temporal component’, ‘friendship aspects’ (including reference to different types of “ties to friends”), ‘trust’, and ‘reciprocal interaction’ headings. Many participants experienced privacy issues using Facebook, for example, but along with LinkedIn these are the only SNS to allow users to view their profiles as others will see them, say the authors.
Privacy as a social issue and behavioural concept
- Author:
- MARGULIS Stephen T.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Issues, 59(2), July 2003, pp.243-261.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article what privacy is, by examining definitions and theories of privacy, and what privacy does, by reviewing the benefits of obtaining privacy and the costs of failing to achieve and of losing privacy. It provides a possible bridge between social psychological and social issues approaches to privacy and examines privacy as a social issue for Americans as citizens, health-care recipients, consumers, and employees. It then briefly explores behavioural aspects of privacy, including indicators of privacy's importance and the generally overlooked status of privacy in psychology.
People, policies and professionals: a study of learning disability in a small town
- Author:
- SAINSBURY Sally
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 264p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This ethnographic study uncovers the problems that arise when principles underlying policy are difficult to interpret and are at odds with the culture of the locality within which policy is implemented. Examining one strategy in particular, the All Wales Strategy in relation to people with learning disabilities, the author focuses as much attention on the community of the small Welsh mining town as on the citizens with learning disabilities who are the object of the policy.