Privacy and Security: An Ethical Analysis * ⢠Excerpted fi'om Chapter 5 of Human Rights in an Inj~rmation Age: A PhilosophicalAna~sis. (London andToronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001). Permision to reprint this material is granted by the University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2001. Gregory J. Waiters Associate Professor St. Paul University Ottawa, Canada gwalters@aixl.uottawa.ca During the past decade, Canadian information highway policy and e-commerce strategy underwent a tremendous amount of policy, academic, and national and international debate. There was, however, no substantive philosophical justification of privacy as a human right beyond its prima facie link with human dignity and autonomy. On what philosophical ground, however, ought legislation seek to instantiate physical privacy, privacy of personal information, freedom from surveillance, privacy of personal communications, and privacy of personal space into public policy? The philosophical meaning of privacy as a social value has also gone undeveloped in information policy documents. The government has called upon academics for "open commtmication and dialogue" on how best to protect personal information in the private sector, and how best to think about the ethical and policy implications of privacy, security, and new surveillance technologies. Fair infbrmation principles appropriate for database forms of surveillance np
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Privacy and security: an ethical analysis
Walters, Gregory J.
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