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Three issues dominate a discussion of privacy:
1. Freedom from intrusion
2. Control of personal information
3. Freedom from surveillance
I think of Orwell's classic, 1984, when I ponder these issues. Look around and you can see daily examples of unethical conduct with respect to each of the above issues.
Freedom from intrusion means that we have the right to be left alone. U.S. citizens expect this right as a part of their citizenship.4 Yet, we have to regularly deal with telemarketers, spam, and many other forms of intrusion into our lives. Every time we think we've eliminated an intrusive practice another emerges. Do you get as annoyed as I do when I pay to see a movie and have to sit through ten minutes of advertisements for businesses and products that have nothing to do with the motion picture industry before the movie begins? This is a form of intrusion, and I pay for the experience. I wonder if there will be an enterprising theater that will charge a little more for "advertisement free" theaters.
Do you control your personal information? If you do, you are one of the rare people who does not own a computer, has no credit cards, never pays for anything in installments, doesn't use a cell phone ... It's impossible today to know where all of your "personal" information resides, much less control it. The amount of information about an individual is a phenomenon that has exploded in the last fifty years of our information technology revolution.
Freedom from surveillance is the final privacy issue. How often do you remove spyware from your computer? Enough said -- well, almost enough. There are so many types of surveillance today that it is all but impossible to avoid them all. Of course, one might ask whether the satellite images that show my house are an invasion of my privacy.
When we discuss the ethical issues of privacy in the information age, we have to ask: Is privacy possible? If it is, then how do my actions either protect or remove the possibility of privacy?
