Computers and Society The Emt of the t~bture: 7he H?ming of the ttigh-Tiech l'IbrM J~ln (}impel Praeger, 1995 From the publisher: 'qhe author seeks to show that, particularly when we compare acttml tedmological re~dity with the heady predictions of lhturologists back in the 60s, teclmology has leveled oit7' Shaping Tedmologv,Buihting Society."Stmtie; ht Sociotechnical Change Wiebe E. Bijker ,'rod 3olm Law', Editors MIT Press, 1992; 341 pages The twelve es~ys ,are, according to the editors, "atxmt tedmologies mid file way in which they are shaped." "Technologies," they claim, "do not evolve raider tile impetus of solne necessary hmer tedmological or scientific logic, qhey are not possessed of an ilfllerent momenttunl. If they ewflve or change, it is because flley have been pressed into fllat shape.'" Page 3 Privacy December 1995 Privacy Issues in Statistical Database Environments Carl S. Guynes Glenn £ Maples Victor R. P~ybutok UniversiO,, o f North Texas Denton. 7X 75203 (817) 565-3110 Introduction This article addresses the problem of trying to ensure the confidentiality of inlbmlation about individuals, while still providing useful statistical summaries of data about those individuals to users. Statistical databases are used to provide statistical stmunaries of information stored in databases in response
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