Controlling the Technologies of Privacy Invasion

计算和相关信息技术已经产生了巨大的新压力，来自政府和私人组织获取和使用关于“私人”公民的信息。这些做法包括：警察和其他国家机构监测公民个人的行动;为营销、信用报告、保险和其他商业目的而销售和交易消费者的个人资料;参与税收和其他执法活动的政府机构挪用公民个人的财务资料。自20世纪60年代以来，每个西方民主国家都制定了立法和政策，以控制公开定义的滥用信息技术导致个人隐私受到侵犯。控制隐私权滥用的各种策略包括设立隐私权监察员、行业自律、政府隐私权保护委员会等。在为期一年的试点调查中，这项研究旨在确定将构成全面，比较，跨国研究隐私保护工作的基础上的案例。 这一年将花在采访美国和国外的个人数据保护的关键人物;这些将包括学术专家，政府和企业官员，以及隐私活动家。 第一年的其他活动将包括分析与可能的研究案例有关的主要和次要文件来源。 其目的是列出在保护个人数据的立法和政策努力方面值得注意的成功和失败之处-沿着一系列文献资料来源和潜在的受访者，作为随后调查这些努力的资料来源。

Computing and related information technologies have generated vast new pressures from government and private organizations to acquire and use information on "private" citizens. These practices include the monitoring of private citizens' movements by police and other state agencies; the sale and trade of consumers' personal data for marketing, credit reporting, insurance and other commercial purposes; and the appropriation of financial data on private citizens by government agencies involved in taxation and other enforcement activities. Since the 1960's, every Western democracy has enacted legislation and policy to control publicly-defined abuses of information technology leading to erosion of personal privacy. Various strategies to control privacy abuses include the creation of privacy ombudsmen, industry self-regulation, governmental privacy protection boards and the like. In a one-year pilot investigation, this study aims to identify cases that will form the basis for a full, comparative, cross-national study of privacy protection efforts. The year will be spent interviewing key figures in personal data protection in the US and abroad; these will include academic specialists, government and corporate officials, and privacy activists. Other activities during this first year will include analyses of primary and secondary documentary sources relating to potential cases for study. The aim will be to generate a list of notable successes and failures in legislative and policy efforts to protect personal data - along with a series of documentary sources and potential interviewees to serve as sources in the ensuing investigation of these efforts.