Journal of Social Issues articles from June 2003

Journal of Social Issues archives from June 2003

Privacy as a social issue and behavioral concept.
June 22, 2003... This issue is primarily about privacy as a social issue and secondarily about privacy as a behavioral concept. This reflects what I have found in my readings over the last decade or so. I believe there has been an increasing level of...

Safe harbors or free frontiers? Privacy and transborder data flows.
June 22, 2003... While the Internet has popularized the notion of "beyond borders" (Kahin & Nesson, 1997), the reality is that even more items of personal data are "crossing borders." From formal applications for visas and work permits, to business...

Public opinion surveys and the formation of privacy policy.
June 22, 2003... Although the events of September 11, 2001, have brought about a dramatic shift in public sentiment regarding the relative importance of personal privacy as it relates to concerns about security (Harris Poll, 2002), there is little doubt that...

Protecting medical privacy: challenges in the age of genetic information.
June 22, 2003... The business and practice of medicine have changed dramatically over the last decade. The introduction of computer technology into medicine is surely among the most significant of these changes. Computer use in medicine is becoming ubiquitous...

Consumer privacy: balancing economic and justice considerations.
June 22, 2003... The issue of consumer privacy is at the center of an ongoing public debate in which three different perspectives on consumer privacy have emerged: the corporate perspective, the activist perspective, and the centrist perspective. The...

Personnel selection procedures and invasion of privacy.
June 22, 2003... In the past two decades, scholars in fields such as industrial and organizational psychology, social psychology, and law have devoted increasing attention to the concept of privacy (e.g., Stone & Stone, 1979, 1990a). Although definitions of...

A tack in the shoe: neutralizing and resisting the new surveillance.
June 22, 2003... It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug Efforts to protect information on the...

Verbal and nonverbal dynamics of privacy, secrecy, and deceit.
June 22, 2003... Our interest is in the practice of privacy, secrecy, and deceit in the ways that have been available to humans throughout history: in what they say (or do not say) and how they say it. The focus of our analysis is the ways in which privacy...

On the status and contribution of Westin's and Altman's theories of privacy.
June 22, 2003... To understand privacy, we need to clearly consider the fundamentals underpinning privacy as a concept. We are fortunate that two insightful scholars have provided a path to follow. This article discusses the status of Westin's (1967) and...

Social and political dimensions of privacy.
June 22, 2003... A Conceptual Framework for Information Privacy Analysis I have defined privacy as the claim of an individual to determine what information about himself or herself should be known to others (Westin, 1967, Part One. See also Bennett, in...