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Perspective

Jan. 6, 2015

A privacy doctrine for the cyber age

Most U.S. court cases address collecting information. They pay little mind to information that is legally collected is later stored, combined and analyzed. By Amitai Etzioni


By Amitai Etzioni


The cyber age requires a new privacy doctrine. While most privacy violations in the "paper age" resulted from the act of collection itself, most privacy violations in the cyber age stem from later uses of legally collected information. In the paper age, there were considerable limits to the additional uses to which collected information could be put. In the cyber age, "cybernating" information - that is, collating it with oth...

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