Deconstructing the Relationship Between Privacy and Security [Viewpoint]
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Conti, Gregory
Shay, Lisa
Hartzog, Woodrow
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2014
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Privacy , Security , Surveillance , US Department of Defense , Government policies , Risk management
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From a government or law-enforcement perspective, one common model of privacy and security postulates that security and privacy are opposite ends of a single continuum. While this model has appealing properties, it is overly simplistic. The relationship between privacy and security is not a binary operation in which one can be traded for the other until a balance is found. One fallacy common in privacy and security discourse is that trade-offs are effective or even necessary. Consider the remarks of New York Police Department Commissioner Ray Kelly shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing, “I'm a major proponent of cameras. I think the privacy issue has really been taken off the table”....
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G. Conti, L. Shay and W. Hartzog, "Deconstructing the Relationship Between Privacy and Security [Viewpoint]," in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 28-30, Summer 2014, doi: 10.1109/MTS.2014.2319897.
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IEEE
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0278-0097