Report on data protection and privacy in seven selected states /

"US 84-10/8."

A data base management approach to Privacy Act compliance /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19).

Computers and privacy : how the government obtains, verifies, uses, and protects personal data : briefing report to the chairman, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives /

"August 1990."

Privacy--the collection, use, and computerization of personal data : joint hearings before the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Privacy and Information Systems of the Committee on Government Operations and the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session ... June 18, 19, and 20, 1974

Hearings held on S. 3418, 3633, 3116, 2810, and 2542.

Legibility, privacy and creativity:linked data in a surveillance society

This paper looks at the issue of privacy and anonymity through the prism of Scott's concept of legibility i.e. the desire of the state to obtain an ever more accurate mapping of its domain and the actors in its domain. We argue that privacy was absent in village life in the past, and it has arisen as a temporary phenomenon arising from the lack of appropriate technology to make all life in the city legible. Cities have been the loci of creativity for the major part of human civilisation. There is something specific about the illegibility of cities which facilitates creativity and innovation. By providing the technology to catalogue and classify all objects and ideas around us, this leads to a consideration of semantic web technologies, Linked Data and the Internet of Things as unwittingly furthering this ever greater legibility. There is a danger that the over description of a domain will lead to a loss in creativity and innovation. We conclude by arguing that our prime concern must be to preserve illegibility because the survival of some form, any form, of civilisation depends upon it.