Computers and Society Privacy Issues Privacy: From Abstraction to Applications L. J. Camp Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA lc2m@andrew. cmu. edu "It is obvious that for effective record-keeping, information-gathering and data processing are essential needs of a modern society. The problem for us is to determine how to reap the nmximum benefit from modern technology in running a better society and at the same time to keep it from dominating us. To do this we need strict controls on who can do what with private information about any individual in the society." Weisner, 1991 Page 8 September 1994 professionals need more technical criteria of privacy than is provided legal and philosophical debates. This paper differs from previous work on privacy in that it is focused on developing technical criteria rather than identifying specific examples of privacy violations or exploring ethical issues. An important step was made towards the development of technical guidelines in the Office of Technology Assessment 1986 study which resulted in the Code of Fair hfformation Practice. This paper has a tighter focus than the OTA study and offers more detailed recommendations. Multiple definitions of privacy exist in different professional contexts. This paper surveys these definitions
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