PRIVACY CONSIDERATIONSIN CSCW: REPORT ON THE CSCW'92 WORKSHOP ANDREW CLEMENT A central feature of CSCW applications is the electronic capture and dissemination of detailed personal information. Whether using e-mail, computer conferencing facilities, group decision support systems, media spaces, active badges, or other computerized means for aiding collective work activities, finegrained information about individual's performance and behaviour is made available to others. This poses important questions about how the people involved may control information about themselves --information which can play an important role in fundamental notions of personal and collective dignity, identity, and autonomy. Privacy issues are therefore intrinsic to CSCW applications and must be considered an essential part of their design and implementation. However, there has been relatively little attention to these issues in the CSCW context. Is is therefore appropriate that privacy discussions were a prominent part of the activities at the CSCW'92 Conference in Toronto. At previous conferences there had been panel sessions on narrower privacy-related topics and heated exchanges in some papers sessions, but here for the first time was the opportunity for involving a significant number of people in examining in depth a full range of CSCW privacy concerns. The principal forums for these
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