Privacy and the Varieties of Moral Wrong-doing in an Information Age M.J. van den Hoven Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam M.J. vandenhoven@fwb.eu,:nl i,,,,,,,, Mi Anonymity and complexity: lack of trust, free-riding and crime. he privacy issue goes to the heart of an ongoing debate in nearly all Western Democracies between Liberalists (individualists) and Communitarians (collectivists) over the question how competing claims for personal freedom and autonomy and the needs of the community must be balanced. The communitarian arguments to make more information on persons available and to relativize privacy claims are often clear, straightforward and convincing. They refer to benefits to the community of having knowledge about its members freely available. A social security agency in The Netherlands (GAK) saved the community 30 million dollars in 1996 by means of very simple computer matching procedures to detect fraud. The Italian government decided to match the list of people who receive government allowances because they are blind and the list of persons who recently got their drivers-licence. The potential for savings seems to be limited only by the limits of our imagination in data-base management. What more is there to say? Who would object to having his data
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Privacy and the varieties of moral wrong-doing in an information age
van den Hoven, M. J.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Sep 1, 1997
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