One of the least recognized elements in the current privacy debates
is the profound difference between governments and the private sector in
how they come to privacy. The two have radically different
incentives when
they collect, use, and store personal information about consumers and
citizens. They operate in entirely different legal
regimes, as well.
Privacilla is organized to treat privacy from government and privacy
from business and the private sector as the radically different subjects
that they are. Please keep this difference in mind as you review Privacilla
and think about privacy issues.
Links:
Keeping Big
Brother From Watching You: Privacy in the Internet Age [pdf], Citizens
Against Government Waste (undated)
New York
Times Gets Half of the Privacy Pie by Jessica Melugin, Competitive Enterprise
Institute (October 25, 2000)
A First
Step Into Privacy: Finding a Free Market Perspective in the Constitution
by Kent Lassman, Citizens for a Sound Economy (March 17, 2000)
Can You Trust the Ministry of Privacy? by Solveig Singleton, Cato Daily Commentary (August 25, 1998)
Comments? comments@privacilla.org
(Subject: GovPrivDiff)
[updated 04/17/02]
