Overview#
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to keep their lives and personal affairs out of public view, or to control the flow of information about themselves.[3]Privacy is distinct and separate from Security.
Privacy implies Confidentiality
Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity although it is often most highly valued by people who are publicly known. Privacy can be seen as an aspect of security—one in which trade-offs between the interests of one group and another can become particularly clear vs IDM The User Dilemma
Simple Philosophies#
"There’s a simple philosophy around privacy — a system should only know as much about you as it needs to for that application." Nymi
founder Karl Martin
"Privacy, a core American value, is not a partisan thing. Democrats fight for it and Republicans fight for it too, maybe even more. So I am very shocked that the Republican party has managed to suggest that it should be trashed; if anyone follows up on this direction, there will be a massive pushback – and there must be a massive pushback!" Tim Berners-Lee
"When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else." -Peltaire
Privacy is a fundamental human right[4]#
Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and in many other international and regional treaties.Privacy underpins human dignity and other key values such as freedom of association and freedom of speech. Privacy has become one of the most important human rights issues of the modern age.
A Taxonomy of Privacy [1]#
Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School, in his paper A Taxonomy of Privacy states: Privacy is a concept in disarray. Nobody can articulate what it means. As one commentator has observed, privacy suffers from an embarrassment of meanings. Privacy is far too vague a concept to guide adjudication and lawmaking, as abstract incantations of the importance of privacy do not fare well when pitted against more concretely-stated countervailing interests.He goes on and identifies 16 different activities that could qualify for Privacy.
The Economics of Privacy[2]#
The Economics of Privacy is an academic paper which concludes:Personal information has both private and commercial value, and often (though not always) exploiting its commercial value entails a reduction in private utility and sometimes even in social welfare overall. Consumers have good reasons to be concerned about unauthorized commercial application of their private information. Use of individual data may subject an individual to a variety of personally costly practices, including price discrimination in retail markets, quantity discrimination in insurance and credit markets, spam, and risk of identity theft, in addition to the disutility inherent in just not knowing who knows what or how they will use it in the future. Personal data — like all information after all — is easily stored, replicated, and transferred, and regulating its acquisition and dissemination is a challenging undertaking for individuals and governments alike.
Privacy Sites#
Some Privacy Sites can help try to maintain personal PrivacyPrivacy Laws#
There are huge number of United States Laws and regulations.Why do privacy "folks" feel that more Laws will help?
Here are a few LIST of Privacy Laws:
- Privacy Laws, Regulations, and more
- United States Privacy Laws
- U.S. privacy law
- Protecting Consumer Privacy
- General Data Protection Regulation
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- API Registry
- Aadhaar
- Applied Cryptography
- Attack
- Attribute Provider Statement
- Attribute references
- Best Practices For Unique Identifiers
- Biometric Sample Processing
- Blockchain
- Bob Blakley
- Consent Mechanism
- Consent Receipts
- Cookie
- CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory
- DNS over HTTPS
- Data Metadata
- Data Ownership
- Data Privacy
- FIDO Standards
- Fair Information Practices
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Fast IDentity Online
- Financial API
- Glossary Of LDAP And Directory Terminology
- Governance Risk Management And Compliance
- HIPAA Covered Entity
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Hyperledger Indy
- IDM The Application Developers Dilemma
- ISO 24745
- Ian Glazer
- Identity Ecosystem Framework
- Identity Token
- Independent Identity
- Informed Pull
- Instant Messaging
- Monero
- NIST.SP.800-53
- NISTIR 8062
- Next Generation Identification
- OASIS Privacy by Design Documentation for Software Engineers
- OAuth 2.0 JWT Secured Authorization Request
- Observer
- OpenPDS
- Privacy
- Privacy And Security Conflicts
- Privacy Considerations
- Privacy Considerations Distributed Ledger Technology
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Privacy Paradox
- Privacy by Design
- Private data
- Pseudonymous
- Reputation System
- Responsive Organizations
- Rich Credential
- SAML
- SCIM externalId
- SCIM id
- Security
- Sovrin
- Standard Disclaimer
- System for Cross-domain Identity Management
- The Onion Router
- Tracking Cookie
- Trust Framework Provider
- U-Prove
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- User-Managed Access
- W3C WebAuthn
- Web Blog_blogentry_130518_1
- Web Blog_blogentry_190617_1
- Web Blog_blogentry_280717_1
- Web Blog_blogentry_290417_1
- Web Blog_blogentry_310717_1
- World Privacy Forum
- Zcash
- Zero Trust
- [#1] - A Taxonomy of Privacy - based on information obtained 2016-02-04-
- [#2] - The Economics of Privacy - based on information obtained 2016-03-08
- [#3] - Privacy - based on information obtained 2016-03-08
- [#4] - PRIVACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS - based on information obtained 2016-03-08
