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Privacy is a right —we are fortunate to be able to maintain privacy. Don't need information on others. Not comfortable with any trade-offs. My rights as a person, a citizen. I should have rights that I feel are being squeezed. US citizens have a right to have an expectation of the right of privacy. A citizen deserves protection from a government that wishes to NOT allow me to exercise my rights in the first place. The right to be left alone. Observation changes behavior; observation also causes manipulation. If big brother is watching, we change not only our behavior but the basis of what can possibly be thought. The right to be secure in my person and personal space, unwanted touching v fitting in. Avoid ridicule for imaginings. The right to go home and shut the door, to be by yourself and think for yourself. The security of knowing your thoughts are private, especially if you put your foot in your mouth, being overheard, People are complex & privacy protects their complexity, it's part of human dignity, freedom of thought.
Privacy is over. “What privacy? That word would eventually be removed from the dictionary and then when the word doesn’t exist anymore, the thought of private things won’t exist anymore either.” “When you get to be my age, there isn’t much left to hide. You’ve already done anything you might be ashamed of, and it’s all in the past, and nobody cares anyway.” Doesn’t exist, there’s a file on everyone. There is too much information already available via databases and the Internet to ever be totally secure, even if you try to guard your privacy. We lack checks & balances, instead we have public apathy, public ignorance, government secrecy. I keep my head down and don't draw attention to myself.
Control? Control (ability to manage privacy) It is empowering to be able to control our own privacy. If someone has negative information on you then you need to know this. Strong emphasis here by one participant in not giving up your rights (example - when asked if it is all right to search your vehicle say no). Opening an account, no balance of rights. have no way of knowing what’s out there, what’s being done to protect my data? Don't know how to protect privacy any more.
Lies If the information about the person is untrue, then that would be damaging to the person. Being identified as a criminal when you are not, and then even if you are cleared, you still have that information on record that you were allegedly guilty of something. Buying habits and reading habits may create mis-impressions.
Public safety Reasonable government intervention is important. Law enforcement--established guidelines (balance the release of information while solving a crime.) If there is probable cause, then access to as much information as possible. However this information should not be shared, beyond the need to know. (Law enforcement context). Maintain flexibility to meet community, national and personal goals. National threats influence how we think about privacy. Would trade off privacy for public safety. E. g. Red light camera improves safety but might be false accusation, compromises your rights. Senior citizens liked the feeling of security that they believed the government was providing. They were willing to do their part if it helped protect Americans. They felt that if their neighbors knew what they were up to, they felt more secure. However, they were concerned about Security at the gate letting people in without calling them first. The three that were concerned about Privacy looked at it from the perspective of protection from ‘evil-doers,’ i. e. those that would do harm if they had information about them that they could use against them. Society is so afraid of criminals, dishonesty is assumed, what are you hiding?
Distrust of government They had a fear about the government tracking them with chips implanted in their bodies and then knowing what they were doing and where they were all the time. “The police searching me or my stuff just because they feel like it, and try to scare me.” Distrust of the government and believe that the government lies to Americans. “The government shouldn’t be snooping around my life looking for stuff I’m not even thinking about doing, let alone do.” Resentment at the airport for all the screening stuff. It’s ridiculous, looking at some old lady’s bag. Yes, maybe the government knows more than it should about its citizens, but it’s impossible to stop them and hopeless, so we can just hope for the best. I think I need more protection from the government than from any terrorist out there. Terrorism, names on no fly list, Patriot Act. Don’t put tax refund in ATM – Homeland Security will check on you.
Children Parents should have the right to observe what their children are viewing. where to cut off what children are exposed to. Teens not OK with “if I watched porn,” no privacy from parents – walk in my room & listen on the phone. Adults on MySpace. Parents want us to grow up ok, say they trust us but don’t, over-protective – go through my room, invade my privacy to build their trust. Lost my backpack so principal looked at it. Families with children need to know if sex offenders/pedophiles are living in the neighborhood.
What is personal? Some personal aspects should be private. "Once you give information up you can never get that part of your privacy back." Too much personal information is public information. Damaging information vs. Comfortable information - Anything could be damaging, depending upon the context in which it is released. Senior citizens did not like giving out any information about themselves, even though they also felt that they needed to know information about others, and that the government needed to know information about others in order to protect them! If I don’t know you at all, I may not even give my real name. If I knew who they were, but not on Internet. Share surface favorites to meet new people. Fear/security, depends on who, depends on if I like a person, trusted friend. OK with my name, my birthday. Having an ethnic name can make a difference. Photos are okay. What kind of music I like. First name but not last or address – phone number, not SS#, – may show up on other people’s MySpace, age, gender, ethnicity, height & weight, birth date, what you like to do & don't like to do – preferences. Nebulous – my private may not match neighbors’. Can Google all this info.
What is too personal? Senior citizen concerned that mail gets delivered to me and not someone else by mistake. "I do not leave outgoing mail in my mailbox at home." Teens not comfortable with someone asking about my grades or what I do after school & at home, rumors – drugs, gay – snoopy gossiping peers, people treat you differently, people get in your business and then talk behind your back. Political thoughts, feelings, backstabbing & gossip, personal opinions. Personal life, how I spend free time, gender questions – gay, sexual orientation. All ages draw the line at questions about sex. Bathrooms. Tendency to impose moral codes on others, judged by association, nosy neighbors: political activity, money, health, sex, youthful follies, counseling, rehab, demographic-type data, voting records, political affiliations, memberships, sometimes nationality, religious organizations.
Confidentiality Confidentiality critical in business (failure to keep confidences could result in loss of employment.) Trust. Not taken seriously by all. Blame—Protection from lawsuits. Lack of trust. No control. Legality is influencing how we think about privacy. We are losing privacy through legislation and the Internet and medical\insurance business. It seems like medical, health and educational institutions are easy to hack. Security of data – stolen laptops. "I don't believe organizations or companies should be allowed to sell clients' information," “business making a buck off my preferences.” Need to know that staff who handle confidential data are trustworthy.
Medical HIPPA has made access to medical information much more difficult. Disclosure could hurt. If I had a disease I wouldn’t want it to be public knowledge. Have a right to know if it affects relationship. That is my right or obligation to tell who I chose, not someone else’s. Senior citizens understood the need for information given to their doctors, and & felt no qualms. But disclosure could hurt if somebody couldn’t get health insurance because they were ill. VA Tech – could a person harm people? But people we least expect may snap, people think everyone is weird. DNA privacy.
Identity documents Comfortable providing Driver’s license. Not comfortable with the One ID issue that the government would have us have. They will create a need for this and make fearful that if we don’t have this ID then we won’t be able to do anything, or get anything, or buy anything, or go anywhere at all. The new chips in the passports, the differences in my new driver’s license compared to my parent’s driver’s license. Do not give out social security number unless given proof of the need for it. Not OK giving out my social security number, sometimes my address - depends on who’s asking. Had to give SS# for Sudafed. Fear losing purse/wallet, ID and home address.
Financial Concern about identity theft (credit cards) Comfortable providing financial disclosures. Credit Fraud. Stolen Identity. Shred everything of a personal nature (credit card applications, credit card receipts etc.) Do Not complete all paperwork when information is requested. No personal financial giving over the phone. Participating in do not call registry. Never keeping credit information on file. Checking personal accounts on a daily basis. They understood the need for banking information being asked, and & felt no qualms. Fear the bank getting me mixed up with somebody else. Solicitations by telemarketers, how do they get my number? Online banking, all that financial info my parents had to put online to fill out forms for financial aid for college, credit card fraud, It disturbs me that I've never been questioned or stopped from using my husband's unsigned debit card. Pay cash.
Employment Comfortable providing Information tied to your profession as required. Need to know Background checks, DMV and drug tests on possible employees. What if someone was sick and couldn’t get into a job. A comment like “macacca,” you wouldn’t want the world to see. Info an employer might see: gossip, ADD, diabetes, DNA, SS#, race or nationality. Discomfort with employee name on badge. Googled job applicants, criminal records, background checks before work with children, security clearance.
Library Disclosure could hurt. Libraries were frequented by only 5 of the individuals, and they were not concerned about patron privacy at all. “If the government cares about what I’m reading, well that’s just sounds funny to me. Why would they waste their time?” Libraries have always been a source of information for me, and when I think about privacy, I think about what I need to know to write the article or story I need to write. I expect that my library would provide information on all sides of the issue that I am researching. All the students felt that libraries had an obligation to protect their information for them. They felt that allowing information about them given out to the FBI would be illegal. We may be losing our privacy at the library, by the government knowing all of our business in the city, county, state and fed. If a person is in a public building, how can there be privacy? The privacy is on the items that you are checking out. Library records could profile thoughts, what you try to understand, chilling – humans must think and explore. Library confidentiality vs customer convenience. Want records & data deleted, but need expertise to purge, don’t know what’s out there, e. g. old photocopier hard drive. Why are they retaining info?
Online Comfortable providing online information---some people are not concerned, while others are less willing to reveal personal data. Not signing up for websites that require personal information prior to purchase. Monitoring personal information on Internet and other places. OK with phone numbers, email addresses, MySpace info, where I’m going to college, where I work. Internet passwords, MySpace can change people’s lives drastically, is Facebook safer? Adults on MySpace, an age card for MySpace would be invasive. Private profile v getting lots of friends, choose whether to follow rules. Satellite photos, can Google all this info – may show up on other people’s MySpace, Lied to Facebook, made fake identity online, use defunct email address, separate email addresses for different purposes, no name for site registration, passwords, firewalls, use fake email or set up account just for spam, not an ad on the Internet, but a trusted source, a major company, for a Yahoo account. The ability of government and companies to track online activities. I use alternate browsers like Firefox or Opera when I make online purchases or bank transactions. Amazon recommendations, cookies, wireless, phishing, mirror sites, crisscross directory, real estate records online. International – my data in India, Nigerian scam.
Technology We have more technology to protect privacy now, you can stay away from MySpace. Accessibility---telephone solicitors & phone spam, caller ID, cell phones, PDAs and computers. RFID, DNA, very large IT databases & automated correlations, eves-dropping software, who watches watchers to keep them from peeping? There are cameras everywhere these days it seems. Buzzing or beeping sounds that go off when I enter a store announcing my presence. They don’t like having cameras in the hallways at school - they feel that they could be set-up for something they didn’t do. Those people that follow everybody around with huge cameras getting in their faces at their weddings and whenever they leave the house. (Paparazzi). Cameras in school and everywhere else, cameras in dressing rooms, those SPY shops that sell surveillance gear, that everywhere everything feeling I get sometimes just when I’m walking down the street or in the mall, webcams & cell phone cameras, red light cameras. "I personally feel uncomfortable knowing that if I'm downtown celebrating there are security cameras everywhere recording what I'm doing --- but on the other hand, I do feel safer knowing that if people are breaking the law, surveillance systems increase the chances they will be caught and prosecuted." The RFID chips will all be carrying around in us one day. They are already putting them in dogs and cats and old people with dementia and Alzheimer’s. Scary, very scary.
Media The media is a huge invasion of their privacy. Angry that the media (mainly television) wastes their time on things that are stupid, instead of representing the truth about everything. 24-hour news, the media in general, newspapers – fact checkers, just being bombarded with information and wondering what of it is true and what of it is spun for the benefit of those in power. Seeing things in print about people that are lies or slanderous was very pernicious. They hated the tabloids and all those celebrity shows that tell us more than we want to know about them. They felt that public figures had a right to keep their lives private. News reporters questions – just say no, reality TV, celebrity & politician gossip,sensationalist media – tell all. No respect for others' privacy. As a future journalism major and journalist, I would never give up or reveal my source. The news stories on phone tapping & bad people (bogeyman).
Convenience Grocery card buying habits. Would trade off privacy for convenience. "I would not mind being inconvenienced if it prevents identity theft." "For the convenience of online purchasing I will give out information but only the minimum necessary." If I needed to do something for my family or friends. Already, I go through airport security even though I hate it so that I can visit my family.
Privacy is over. “What privacy? That word would eventually be removed from the dictionary and then when the word doesn’t exist anymore, the thought of private things won’t exist anymore either.” “When you get to be my age, there isn’t much left to hide. You’ve already done anything you might be ashamed of, and it’s all in the past, and nobody cares anyway.” Doesn’t exist, there’s a file on everyone. There is too much information already available via databases and the Internet to ever be totally secure, even if you try to guard your privacy. We lack checks & balances, instead we have public apathy, public ignorance, government secrecy. I keep my head down and don't draw attention to myself.
Control? Control (ability to manage privacy) It is empowering to be able to control our own privacy. If someone has negative information on you then you need to know this. Strong emphasis here by one participant in not giving up your rights (example - when asked if it is all right to search your vehicle say no). Opening an account, no balance of rights. have no way of knowing what’s out there, what’s being done to protect my data? Don't know how to protect privacy any more.
Lies If the information about the person is untrue, then that would be damaging to the person. Being identified as a criminal when you are not, and then even if you are cleared, you still have that information on record that you were allegedly guilty of something. Buying habits and reading habits may create mis-impressions.
Public safety Reasonable government intervention is important. Law enforcement--established guidelines (balance the release of information while solving a crime.) If there is probable cause, then access to as much information as possible. However this information should not be shared, beyond the need to know. (Law enforcement context). Maintain flexibility to meet community, national and personal goals. National threats influence how we think about privacy. Would trade off privacy for public safety. E. g. Red light camera improves safety but might be false accusation, compromises your rights. Senior citizens liked the feeling of security that they believed the government was providing. They were willing to do their part if it helped protect Americans. They felt that if their neighbors knew what they were up to, they felt more secure. However, they were concerned about Security at the gate letting people in without calling them first. The three that were concerned about Privacy looked at it from the perspective of protection from ‘evil-doers,’ i. e. those that would do harm if they had information about them that they could use against them. Society is so afraid of criminals, dishonesty is assumed, what are you hiding?
Distrust of government They had a fear about the government tracking them with chips implanted in their bodies and then knowing what they were doing and where they were all the time. “The police searching me or my stuff just because they feel like it, and try to scare me.” Distrust of the government and believe that the government lies to Americans. “The government shouldn’t be snooping around my life looking for stuff I’m not even thinking about doing, let alone do.” Resentment at the airport for all the screening stuff. It’s ridiculous, looking at some old lady’s bag. Yes, maybe the government knows more than it should about its citizens, but it’s impossible to stop them and hopeless, so we can just hope for the best. I think I need more protection from the government than from any terrorist out there. Terrorism, names on no fly list, Patriot Act. Don’t put tax refund in ATM – Homeland Security will check on you.
Children Parents should have the right to observe what their children are viewing. where to cut off what children are exposed to. Teens not OK with “if I watched porn,” no privacy from parents – walk in my room & listen on the phone. Adults on MySpace. Parents want us to grow up ok, say they trust us but don’t, over-protective – go through my room, invade my privacy to build their trust. Lost my backpack so principal looked at it. Families with children need to know if sex offenders/pedophiles are living in the neighborhood.
What is personal? Some personal aspects should be private. "Once you give information up you can never get that part of your privacy back." Too much personal information is public information. Damaging information vs. Comfortable information - Anything could be damaging, depending upon the context in which it is released. Senior citizens did not like giving out any information about themselves, even though they also felt that they needed to know information about others, and that the government needed to know information about others in order to protect them! If I don’t know you at all, I may not even give my real name. If I knew who they were, but not on Internet. Share surface favorites to meet new people. Fear/security, depends on who, depends on if I like a person, trusted friend. OK with my name, my birthday. Having an ethnic name can make a difference. Photos are okay. What kind of music I like. First name but not last or address – phone number, not SS#, – may show up on other people’s MySpace, age, gender, ethnicity, height & weight, birth date, what you like to do & don't like to do – preferences. Nebulous – my private may not match neighbors’. Can Google all this info.
What is too personal? Senior citizen concerned that mail gets delivered to me and not someone else by mistake. "I do not leave outgoing mail in my mailbox at home." Teens not comfortable with someone asking about my grades or what I do after school & at home, rumors – drugs, gay – snoopy gossiping peers, people treat you differently, people get in your business and then talk behind your back. Political thoughts, feelings, backstabbing & gossip, personal opinions. Personal life, how I spend free time, gender questions – gay, sexual orientation. All ages draw the line at questions about sex. Bathrooms. Tendency to impose moral codes on others, judged by association, nosy neighbors: political activity, money, health, sex, youthful follies, counseling, rehab, demographic-type data, voting records, political affiliations, memberships, sometimes nationality, religious organizations.
Confidentiality Confidentiality critical in business (failure to keep confidences could result in loss of employment.) Trust. Not taken seriously by all. Blame—Protection from lawsuits. Lack of trust. No control. Legality is influencing how we think about privacy. We are losing privacy through legislation and the Internet and medical\insurance business. It seems like medical, health and educational institutions are easy to hack. Security of data – stolen laptops. "I don't believe organizations or companies should be allowed to sell clients' information," “business making a buck off my preferences.” Need to know that staff who handle confidential data are trustworthy.
Medical HIPPA has made access to medical information much more difficult. Disclosure could hurt. If I had a disease I wouldn’t want it to be public knowledge. Have a right to know if it affects relationship. That is my right or obligation to tell who I chose, not someone else’s. Senior citizens understood the need for information given to their doctors, and & felt no qualms. But disclosure could hurt if somebody couldn’t get health insurance because they were ill. VA Tech – could a person harm people? But people we least expect may snap, people think everyone is weird. DNA privacy.
Identity documents Comfortable providing Driver’s license. Not comfortable with the One ID issue that the government would have us have. They will create a need for this and make fearful that if we don’t have this ID then we won’t be able to do anything, or get anything, or buy anything, or go anywhere at all. The new chips in the passports, the differences in my new driver’s license compared to my parent’s driver’s license. Do not give out social security number unless given proof of the need for it. Not OK giving out my social security number, sometimes my address - depends on who’s asking. Had to give SS# for Sudafed. Fear losing purse/wallet, ID and home address.
Financial Concern about identity theft (credit cards) Comfortable providing financial disclosures. Credit Fraud. Stolen Identity. Shred everything of a personal nature (credit card applications, credit card receipts etc.) Do Not complete all paperwork when information is requested. No personal financial giving over the phone. Participating in do not call registry. Never keeping credit information on file. Checking personal accounts on a daily basis. They understood the need for banking information being asked, and & felt no qualms. Fear the bank getting me mixed up with somebody else. Solicitations by telemarketers, how do they get my number? Online banking, all that financial info my parents had to put online to fill out forms for financial aid for college, credit card fraud, It disturbs me that I've never been questioned or stopped from using my husband's unsigned debit card. Pay cash.
Employment Comfortable providing Information tied to your profession as required. Need to know Background checks, DMV and drug tests on possible employees. What if someone was sick and couldn’t get into a job. A comment like “macacca,” you wouldn’t want the world to see. Info an employer might see: gossip, ADD, diabetes, DNA, SS#, race or nationality. Discomfort with employee name on badge. Googled job applicants, criminal records, background checks before work with children, security clearance.
Library Disclosure could hurt. Libraries were frequented by only 5 of the individuals, and they were not concerned about patron privacy at all. “If the government cares about what I’m reading, well that’s just sounds funny to me. Why would they waste their time?” Libraries have always been a source of information for me, and when I think about privacy, I think about what I need to know to write the article or story I need to write. I expect that my library would provide information on all sides of the issue that I am researching. All the students felt that libraries had an obligation to protect their information for them. They felt that allowing information about them given out to the FBI would be illegal. We may be losing our privacy at the library, by the government knowing all of our business in the city, county, state and fed. If a person is in a public building, how can there be privacy? The privacy is on the items that you are checking out. Library records could profile thoughts, what you try to understand, chilling – humans must think and explore. Library confidentiality vs customer convenience. Want records & data deleted, but need expertise to purge, don’t know what’s out there, e. g. old photocopier hard drive. Why are they retaining info?
Online Comfortable providing online information---some people are not concerned, while others are less willing to reveal personal data. Not signing up for websites that require personal information prior to purchase. Monitoring personal information on Internet and other places. OK with phone numbers, email addresses, MySpace info, where I’m going to college, where I work. Internet passwords, MySpace can change people’s lives drastically, is Facebook safer? Adults on MySpace, an age card for MySpace would be invasive. Private profile v getting lots of friends, choose whether to follow rules. Satellite photos, can Google all this info – may show up on other people’s MySpace, Lied to Facebook, made fake identity online, use defunct email address, separate email addresses for different purposes, no name for site registration, passwords, firewalls, use fake email or set up account just for spam, not an ad on the Internet, but a trusted source, a major company, for a Yahoo account. The ability of government and companies to track online activities. I use alternate browsers like Firefox or Opera when I make online purchases or bank transactions. Amazon recommendations, cookies, wireless, phishing, mirror sites, crisscross directory, real estate records online. International – my data in India, Nigerian scam.
Technology We have more technology to protect privacy now, you can stay away from MySpace. Accessibility---telephone solicitors & phone spam, caller ID, cell phones, PDAs and computers. RFID, DNA, very large IT databases & automated correlations, eves-dropping software, who watches watchers to keep them from peeping? There are cameras everywhere these days it seems. Buzzing or beeping sounds that go off when I enter a store announcing my presence. They don’t like having cameras in the hallways at school - they feel that they could be set-up for something they didn’t do. Those people that follow everybody around with huge cameras getting in their faces at their weddings and whenever they leave the house. (Paparazzi). Cameras in school and everywhere else, cameras in dressing rooms, those SPY shops that sell surveillance gear, that everywhere everything feeling I get sometimes just when I’m walking down the street or in the mall, webcams & cell phone cameras, red light cameras. "I personally feel uncomfortable knowing that if I'm downtown celebrating there are security cameras everywhere recording what I'm doing --- but on the other hand, I do feel safer knowing that if people are breaking the law, surveillance systems increase the chances they will be caught and prosecuted." The RFID chips will all be carrying around in us one day. They are already putting them in dogs and cats and old people with dementia and Alzheimer’s. Scary, very scary.
Media The media is a huge invasion of their privacy. Angry that the media (mainly television) wastes their time on things that are stupid, instead of representing the truth about everything. 24-hour news, the media in general, newspapers – fact checkers, just being bombarded with information and wondering what of it is true and what of it is spun for the benefit of those in power. Seeing things in print about people that are lies or slanderous was very pernicious. They hated the tabloids and all those celebrity shows that tell us more than we want to know about them. They felt that public figures had a right to keep their lives private. News reporters questions – just say no, reality TV, celebrity & politician gossip,sensationalist media – tell all. No respect for others' privacy. As a future journalism major and journalist, I would never give up or reveal my source. The news stories on phone tapping & bad people (bogeyman).
Convenience Grocery card buying habits. Would trade off privacy for convenience. "I would not mind being inconvenienced if it prevents identity theft." "For the convenience of online purchasing I will give out information but only the minimum necessary." If I needed to do something for my family or friends. Already, I go through airport security even though I hate it so that I can visit my family.
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