Some Challenges to Privacy from Information Technology
Privacy protections for information in the public domain based on the difficulty and expense of collecting and manipulating information are diminished (e.g., Lotus Marketplace)
Data collected for one purpose is readily available and can be used for other purposes (e.g., using student computer use data to infer student effort)
Data collection can occur “invisibly”, without the person’s knowledge (e.g., cookies, video cameras)
Information flows readily across cultural and international boundaries; cultural understanding about privacy and privacy protections from one cultural context may not carry over to the other contexts