Privacy Onlinet Herman T. Tavani Philosophy Department, Rivier College htavani @rivier.edu n the recent literature on privacy and technology, considerable attention has been paid to online privacy issues and concerns. For example, a number of books and scholarly journal articles, as well as reports in the popular press, have examined" the impact of certain online activities involving the Internet and the World Wide Web for personal privacy. In this essay, I use the expression "online activities" to refer to those activities involving both the Web in particular and the Internet in general. And I use the tern "Internet" in its most generic sense to include protocols such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Gopher as well as the Web (HTTP). Our concern in this study is with privacy issues arising from online activities involving any of these Internet protocols. Note, however, that we will not be concerned with privacy issues peculiar to privately owned computer systems and networks (such as privacy issues involving employee email). Nor will we be concerned with privacy issues involving the use of digital telephony, including devices such as cell phones. Instead, we will limit our analysis of privacy issues to those concerns arising
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Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1999
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