Legal concepts meet technology
Miriam Berhane Russom, Robert H. Sloan, Richard Warner · 2011
Informational privacy consists of the ability to control how others use our personal information. Over the past several decades, we have lost a significant degree of control as a result of advances in information processing technology and the rise of the Internet. We pose two questions: (1) What legal concepts of privacy and privacy protection have developed in response to changing technology? (2) Are these responses adequate?