Reading questions for:
Nissenbaum, Toward and Approach to Privacy in Public: Challenges of Information Technology.
CS-80--Senior Seminar
Fall '01

Jim Rice (with help with the form)

October 10, 2001

1.

Nissenbaum proposes that what we commonly suppose are in the public realm are actually in the private realm as well. How does she support that idea? How does she define "public realm" and "private realm?" In Nissenbaum's opinion, what is the problem with privacy in terms of computing?

2.

What do you think of the Lotus Marketplace case? Do you think that the public outcry was justified? Why? What would Nissenbaum say about the case?

3.

What are the two "misleading assumptions" that Nissenbaum addresses? How are they misleading? What problems do the assumptions cause? What does Nissenbaum propose we do to correct these assumptions?

4.

What, according to Nissenbaum, is wrong with current theories of privacy? How does she propose we correct those theories? How will existing theories allow information technologies to "deprive them (people) of privacy in public," and what does she mean by that statement?

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Reading questions for:
Nissenbaum, Toward and Approach to Privacy in Public: Challenges of Information Technology.
CS-80--Senior Seminar
Fall '01

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