Sunlight or sunburn: A survey of attitudes toward online availability of US public records
Sunlight or sunburn: A survey of attitudes toward online availability of US public records
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阳光或晒伤：对美国公共记录在线可用性的态度调查
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2012
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I. Smith
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Sean A Munson;Daniel Avrahami;Sunny Consolvo;J. Fogarty;Batya Friedman;I. Smith
许多人热烈欢迎在线搜索和查看公共记录的能力，认为这是提高透明度和问责制的一大进步。然而，这种能力也造成了与隐私和其他重要人类价值观的价值紧张。在本文中，我们报告了对美国太平洋西北部134名居民的调查结果，调查对象是他们对在线获取政治竞选记录和房地产交易历史的认识和态度，揭示了技术变革增加了获取公共记录的便捷性的一些社会影响。我们证明了这一点。虽然答复者往往理解公开这些记录背后的原因，但人们对这些记录目前的可获取性存在相当大的担忧，同时也有预防性的迹象表明，这种开放获取可能会减少某些个人的公众参与。
Many have enthusiastically greeted the ability to search and view public records online as a great advance for transparency and accountability. Such ability, however, also creates value tensions with privacy and other important human values. In this paper, we report findings from a survey of 134 residents of the US Pacific Northwest on their awareness of and attitudes towards online access to political campaign records and real estate transaction histories, bringing to light some of the social implications of technological changes that increase ease of access to public records. We show that. while respondents often understood the reason behind making these records public, considerable concern about the current accessibility of these records exists, along with a precautionary indication that such open access may reduce public participation for some individuals.