e-Citizenship and its privacy protection issues

Carlson, Christopher N. e-Citizenship and its privacy protection issues., 2006 . In 6th European Conference on e-Government, Marburg/Lahn (Germany), April 27 - 28, 2006. [Conference paper]

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It is generally accepted that the global information society needs comprehensive and effective privacy protection in order to build trust and confidence on the part of its participants. This is most especially true with regard to eGovernment. Current eGovernment concepts mostly require that prospective eCitizens reveal substantial amounts of personal data as the price of claiming their rights to eInclusion and eParticipation. The arguments in favor of this view are well known. This paper considers the reverse proposition: That the potential advantages in terms of enhancing citizens' trust in the benevolence of eGovernment (and thus of diminishing the current atmosphere of political discontent) greatly outweigh any abstract danger to the state in the form of individuals misusing the system. Online privacy protection policies and data protection laws need to be significantly upgraded. More resources should be committed to the enforcement of existing legislation and penalties and sanctions for privacy rights violations - both malicious and negligent - ought be tightened up.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	eCitizenship, eGovernment, privacy rights, privacy protection
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
Depositing user:	Christopher N. Carlson
Date deposited:	03 May 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:03
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7511

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