Privacy
Privacy Top analyst Leslie Gruis's timely new book argues that privacy is an individual right and democratic value worth preserving, even in a cyberized world. All governments exercise extraordinary…
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Privacy
Top analyst Leslie Gruis's timely new book argues that privacy is an individual right and democratic value worth preserving, even in a cyberized world. All governments exercise extraordinary powers during national security crises. Since the time of the printing press, technology has played a key role in the evolution of individual rights and helped privacy emerge as a formal legal concept.
The Privacy Act of 1974 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, 1978) reversed that trend. In the United States, many imminent threats during the twentieth century induced heightened government intrusion into the privacy of Americans. Other laws protect the private information of individuals held in specific sectors of the commercial world.
Risk management practices were extended to computer networks, and standards for information system security began to emerge. The National Institute of