Concern over personal privacy has risen as a result of two areas of development in computing and related technologies. First, databases used as surveillance tools for gathering, storing, and disseminating personal information have stirred fears that...

Privacy as a value is often regarded as an essentially modern development, emerging out of the liberalism of nineteenth-century writers like J.S.Mill (1971 [1874]). In the Classical world, the private was associated with withdrawal from the public...

As more diagnostic, screening, and monitoring tests based on genetic data become available, privacy issues are becoming increasingly important. There are concerns that the results of genetic tests showing a person to be pre-disposed to a particular...

Right to Privacy The right to privacy has developed as a nearly universal human right. The best evidence of that trend is the adoption of comprehensive privacy and data protection standards and statutes, as well as the right...

Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differs between cultures and individuals, but shares basic...

Panel addresses growing debate over protected information While privacy on the Internet has garnered a lot of attention these days, the whole issue of privacy needs to be explored more by the media, especially in light of some conflicting views by the public....

Five bills currendy pending in Congress would restrict the release of private consumer information obtained in the course of electronic commerce. The bills generally attempt to address privacy concerns of consumers who conduct business over the Internet. H.R. 3770 and S. 2063,...

Google Inc. is adopting new privacy measures to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them _ a move it believes could prevent showdowns with the government over the often sensitive data.Under revisions announced late Wednesday, Google promised to...

The nation's largest drugstore chains say they are working to better protect patient privacy after an investigative TV report turned up sensitive information about hundreds of customers in trash bins in cities around the country. Indianapolis TV station WTHR inspected...

Debate-style arguments, in both the affirmative and the negative, on the resolution that individual claims of privacy ought to be valued above competing claims of societal welfare. The affirmative argues that privacy is both at the basis of our constitutional values and the underlining factor behind several of our amendments, and that privacy is essential to both societal welfare and societal functioning and performance. The negative argues that no security can exist without some intrusion of privacy, and

Examines the right to privacy in the United States. Details the erosion of that right and increased incidents of invasion of privacy.