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Not at White House site any more. Use this link: https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/Privacy_in_Our_Digital_Lives.pdf On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 11:25 AM Gary T Marx <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Colleagues --This final report issued by the Obama administration > summarizes developments taken at the U.S. federal level over the last 8 > years with respect to privacy and related issues: > > > > > > > https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Documents/Privacy%20in%20Our%20Digital%20Lives.pdf > > > > > > A lot clearly is going on, even though this is stronger on privacy > protections for the individual and is lighter on the social and equity > impacts, reciprocity, transparency, sanctions and on freedom of information > > issues. The focus continues to be on privacy as an individual, rather than > a social value. The social emphasis, is on the role of good security for > protecting privacy. This is seen to increase trust and therefore facilitate > commerce both locally and globally. > > With respect to public policy, doomsayers and technophobes need to be > aware of all that is going on beyond the constraining and moderating, if > imperfect, role of institutions and culture to counter a downward spiral > into dystopia-land, while optimistic technophiles > > and pluralists need to note how far these best practices and policies are > from the ideal and also to ask about their implementation. As usual, it is > semi-opaque. Cheers, Gary > > > > > > www.garymarx.net > > > > > > http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo22228665.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > **************************************************** > > This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv > > for research and teaching in surveillance studies. > > > > To unsubscribe, please send the following message to > > : > > > > UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE > > > > For further help, please visit: > > > > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help > > **************************************************** > > **************************************************** This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv for research and teaching in surveillance studies. To unsubscribe, please send the following message to <[log in to unmask]>: UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE For further help, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help ****************************************************