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Wednesday, August 08, 2001
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/t_warger_1.html Perspectives on Privacy in Campus IT Commentary by Thomas Warger How much information "noise" can we endure and still have room for instruction, study and thinking? Privacy and the threats it encounters in the digital era now have high visibility in the public press. Citizens and some politicians have begun to learn the extent to which information about individuals gleaned from many sources is avidly collected and analyzed in the commercial world. Concerns about similar activities by government agencies also run high.... The academic world has been slow to explore its particular stake in the public debate about the values and vulnerabilities of privacy....
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