Social Issues in Ubiquitous Computing
Social Issues in Ubiquitous Computing
Social Issues in Ubiquitous Computing
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What is Privacy?<br />
• Privacy is the ability of an <strong>in</strong>dividual or group to seclude<br />
themselves or <strong>in</strong>formation about themselves and thereby<br />
reveal themselves selectively. – Wikipedia<br />
• considered <strong>in</strong>herently special or personally sensitive<br />
• sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to rema<strong>in</strong> unnoticed<br />
• may be voluntarily sacrificed, normally for perceived benefits<br />
• greatly varied depended up cultures, persons, situations, etc.<br />
• Types of Privacy<br />
• Physical – <strong>in</strong>trusions <strong>in</strong>to one's physical space or solitude<br />
• Informational – personal date collection, view, use, change, …<br />
• Right of Privacy<br />
• It is our right to keep a doma<strong>in</strong> around us, which <strong>in</strong>cludes all those th<strong>in</strong>gs that are<br />
part of us. The right to privacy gives us the ability to choose which parts <strong>in</strong> this<br />
doma<strong>in</strong> can be accessed by others, and to control the extent, manner and tim<strong>in</strong>g<br />
of the use of those parts we choose to disclose. - Yael Onn, et al, 2005.
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