Government Surveillance, Privacy, and Legitimacy

Privacy and Open Government

The public-oriented goals of the open government movement promise increased transparency and accountability of governments, enhanced citizen engagement and participation, improved service delivery, economic development and the stimulation of innovation. In part, these goals are to be achieved by making more and more government information public in reusable formats and under open licences. This...

Surveillance and Privacy

Recent social and technical developments are expanding surveillance by the government and private sector and intensifying privacy concerns, resulting in a surveillance-privacy dilemma. Governments establish surveillance schemes to fight terrorism and crime. Private organizations use profiling and data mining techniques to target marketing endeavors, to analyze customer behavior and monitor the ...

Personal Data and Government Surveillance

I n September 2013, the US National Academy of Sciences, on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, concluded that cybersecurity should be seen as an occupation and not a profession because the rate of change is too great to consider professionalization (www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record _id=18446). That rate of change is why cybersecurity is perhaps the most intellectually demanding occup...

Internet privacy concerns and beliefs about government surveillance - An empirical investigation

This U.S.-based research attempts to understand the relationships between users’ perceptions about Internet privacy concerns, the need for government surveillance, government intrusion concerns, and the willingness to disclose personal information required to complete online transactions. We test a theoretical model based on a privacy calculus framework and Asymmetric Information Theory using d...

Communications and Privacy under Surveillance