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The following was posted by Pam on 3/30/07:
I conducted interviews with library employees using the following questions:
1)What concerns do you have about privacy?
2)How do you feel about your privacy?
3)Where do you personally draw the line and say, "It's none of your business?"
4)What trade-offs or compromises would you be willing to make with your privacy?
I worked with five males and nineteen females; ages: 2 ages 16-20; 4 ages 21-30; 4 ages 31-40; 8 ages 41-50; 5 ages 51-60; 1 ages 60+.
Responses:
Question 1 What concerns do you have about privacy?:
Nine persons mentioned they were concerned about privacy of
Social Security Numbers; six were concerned about identity theft; two mentioned keeping financial information private; one was concerned about the ability of government and companies to track online activities.
"It seems like medical, health and educational institutions are easy to hack."
"Any company that isn't jealous of my information won't get my business."
"Stuff like birthdates and addresses are no big deal. Less and less is private and more and more people are comfortable knowing more about others."
"It seems like high level government agencies or powerful corporate interests can access all kinds of personal information and use it for their own gain, so how can the gatekeepers be trusted?"
"It disturbs me that I've never been questioned or stopped from using my husband's unsigned debit card."
Question 2 How do you feel about your privacy?:
"It is very easy for anyone to invade your privacy with all of the cell phones and cell phone cameras and Internet access."
"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."
"I keep my head down and don't draw attention to myself. I shred unsolicited mail, credit card statements, bank statements and billing information. I don't deposit outgoing mail in a street mailbox. I use alternate browsers like Firefox or Opera when I make online purchases or bank transactions."
"I am not really a private person. It doesn’t bother me too much for people to know about me."
"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."
"There are too many ways people can find out information that I don't want to share."
"I do not leave outgoing mail in my mailbox at home."
"I don't believe organizations or companies should be allowed to sell clients' information."
"I feel my privacy is threatened daily by our government."
"I get nervous when I misplace my wallet or checkbook, and was recently aggravated when the bank ATM ate my debit card."
Question 3 Where do you personally draw the line and say, "It's none of your business?":
"I think that your social life and business life deserves to be separate. I really don't need to share what I did over the weekend with people I don't have a personal relationship with."
"Institutions need to make a strong case with me for why they really need to know what they are asking."
"If I wouldn't answer a question, I wouldn't ask it either."
"In my opinion, databases that provide marketing profiles of individuals are crossing the privacy borderline."
"Medical information, personal habits and voting are off limits."
"I never give out personal information over the phone."
"I never give out my Social Security Number for id purposes."
"I pay bills by check instead on online banking."
"My increasingly obvious pregnancy has given rise to a few questions. I don't mind discussing such things with other women, bu questions from men my father's age seem odd."
"I have given false information sometimes to people who persist in asking."
Question 4 What trade-offs or compromises would you be willing to make with your privacy?:
"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 the majority of people don't mind giving out certain information, then I'd go along with it."
"If I was given a choice of privacy or my left arm, of course I'll take my arm. I can be very accommodating."
"It seems like the way crime is today the safety provided by surveillance systems is already a necessity."
"Once you give information up you can never get that part of your privacy back."
"I still stand in line at the gas station. I don’t use a debit card and only rarely a credit card, and I still don't own a personal computer."
"I'm willing to take off my shoes for airport inspections and not to travel with liquids, but medical and legal records should be private."
"I have been forced to give up my Social Security Number to receive a needed medical procedure. Their excuse is that the computers are not set up to function without a SSN...yet. Your only choice is to give up the number or forgo the treatment."
"I accept that I have to give up having 100% privacy in order to live in society with other people. I am willing to give up the right to do whatever I want whenever I want in return for being protected from other people being able to do whatever they want to do to me whenever they want to do it. I was the victim of identity theft due to a stolen purse so I know how it feels."
I conducted interviews with library employees using the following questions:
1)What concerns do you have about privacy?
2)How do you feel about your privacy?
3)Where do you personally draw the line and say, "It's none of your business?"
4)What trade-offs or compromises would you be willing to make with your privacy?
I worked with five males and nineteen females; ages: 2 ages 16-20; 4 ages 21-30; 4 ages 31-40; 8 ages 41-50; 5 ages 51-60; 1 ages 60+.
Responses:
Question 1 What concerns do you have about privacy?:
Nine persons mentioned they were concerned about privacy of
Social Security Numbers; six were concerned about identity theft; two mentioned keeping financial information private; one was concerned about the ability of government and companies to track online activities.
"It seems like medical, health and educational institutions are easy to hack."
"Any company that isn't jealous of my information won't get my business."
"Stuff like birthdates and addresses are no big deal. Less and less is private and more and more people are comfortable knowing more about others."
"It seems like high level government agencies or powerful corporate interests can access all kinds of personal information and use it for their own gain, so how can the gatekeepers be trusted?"
"It disturbs me that I've never been questioned or stopped from using my husband's unsigned debit card."
Question 2 How do you feel about your privacy?:
"It is very easy for anyone to invade your privacy with all of the cell phones and cell phone cameras and Internet access."
"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."
"I keep my head down and don't draw attention to myself. I shred unsolicited mail, credit card statements, bank statements and billing information. I don't deposit outgoing mail in a street mailbox. I use alternate browsers like Firefox or Opera when I make online purchases or bank transactions."
"I am not really a private person. It doesn’t bother me too much for people to know about me."
"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."
"There are too many ways people can find out information that I don't want to share."
"I do not leave outgoing mail in my mailbox at home."
"I don't believe organizations or companies should be allowed to sell clients' information."
"I feel my privacy is threatened daily by our government."
"I get nervous when I misplace my wallet or checkbook, and was recently aggravated when the bank ATM ate my debit card."
Question 3 Where do you personally draw the line and say, "It's none of your business?":
"I think that your social life and business life deserves to be separate. I really don't need to share what I did over the weekend with people I don't have a personal relationship with."
"Institutions need to make a strong case with me for why they really need to know what they are asking."
"If I wouldn't answer a question, I wouldn't ask it either."
"In my opinion, databases that provide marketing profiles of individuals are crossing the privacy borderline."
"Medical information, personal habits and voting are off limits."
"I never give out personal information over the phone."
"I never give out my Social Security Number for id purposes."
"I pay bills by check instead on online banking."
"My increasingly obvious pregnancy has given rise to a few questions. I don't mind discussing such things with other women, bu questions from men my father's age seem odd."
"I have given false information sometimes to people who persist in asking."
Question 4 What trade-offs or compromises would you be willing to make with your privacy?:
"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 the majority of people don't mind giving out certain information, then I'd go along with it."
"If I was given a choice of privacy or my left arm, of course I'll take my arm. I can be very accommodating."
"It seems like the way crime is today the safety provided by surveillance systems is already a necessity."
"Once you give information up you can never get that part of your privacy back."
"I still stand in line at the gas station. I don’t use a debit card and only rarely a credit card, and I still don't own a personal computer."
"I'm willing to take off my shoes for airport inspections and not to travel with liquids, but medical and legal records should be private."
"I have been forced to give up my Social Security Number to receive a needed medical procedure. Their excuse is that the computers are not set up to function without a SSN...yet. Your only choice is to give up the number or forgo the treatment."
"I accept that I have to give up having 100% privacy in order to live in society with other people. I am willing to give up the right to do whatever I want whenever I want in return for being protected from other people being able to do whatever they want to do to me whenever they want to do it. I was the victim of identity theft due to a stolen purse so I know how it feels."
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