Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores an important development in the informal regulation of online privacy.Privacy norm proselytizers have been the leading contributors toward the recognition by Internet users of a moral entitlement to privacy in cyberspace.This article begins by examining the non-moral social meaning of the original personal data collection practices that emerged at the World Wide Web's inception in the early 1990s.Next, it analyzes methods by which privacy activists endeavored to moralize the social meaning of online data collection.It also emphasizes that other norm entrepreneurs, namely, the Federal Trade Commission and creators of new software privacy solutions, have subsequently supported an entitlement to privacy for reasons less selfless, but no less efficacious, in terms of helping to stimulate demand for increased privacy protections.The article concludes that even though a grundnorm of respect for consumer data privacy has generally emerged in American culture, American society is only at the beginning of the difficult task of incorporating this grundnorm into its social and business practices.
Source: bepress Legal Repository
DOI: 10.15779/z387t1z
Author: Hetcher, Steven A.
Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W68364660