The loss of personal privacy and its consequences for social research

Robbin, Alice The loss of personal privacy and its consequences for social research. Journal of Government Information, 2001, vol. 28, n. 5, pp. 493-527. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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This article chronicles more than 30 years of public opinion, politics, and law and policy on privacy and confidentiality that have had far-reaching consequences for access by the social research community to administrative and statistical records produced by government. A hostile political environment, public controversy over the decennial census long form, media coverage, and public fears about the vast accumulations of personal information by the private sector were catalysts for a recent proposal by the U.S. Bureau of the Census that would have significantly altered the contents of the 2000 census Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS). These events show clearly that science does not operate independently from the political sphere but may be transformed by a political world where powerful interests lead government agencies to assume responsibility for privacy protection that can result in reducing access to statistical data.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Personal privacy; Confidentiality; Information privacy; Data access; Data sharing; Decennial census; PUMS, Public use microdata sample
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
B. Information use and sociology of information
B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy
Depositing user: Alice Robbin
Date deposited: 03 Apr 2008
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:11
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/11353

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