This page will contain research on the topic of privacy, including literature searches, interviews with experts, and web sites or other discussion guides produced on this topic. Our interviews with stakeholders to identify the concerns that we should map in our framing will be in the Field Research section. Information about how to frame an issue are in the Resources section.

Data:
Public Agenda has consolidated survey data on the following:
Concerns about threats to freedom http://www.publicagenda.org/specials/constitution/constitution5.htm
Concerns about terrorism http://www.publicagenda.org/specials/terrorism/terror.htm Internet Speech/Privacy: People’s Chief Concerns http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/pcc_detail.cfm?issue_type=internet&list=6 http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/pcc_detail.cfm?issue_type=internet&list=11 http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/pcc_detail.cfm?issue_type=internet&list=12 http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/pcc_detail.cfm?issue_type=internet&list=13 http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/pcc_detail.cfm?issue_type=internet&list=14
Issues with the data above http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/red_flags_detail.cfm?issue_type=internet&list=5&area=1

On April 18, 2007, PEW Internet released a study, Teens, Privacy & Online Social Networks: How teens manage their online identities and personal information in the age of MySpace. http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Teens_Privacy_SNS_Report_Final.pdf

OCLC: Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World,Sept. 2007 http://www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/sharing_part3.pdf

PBS' NOW has covered this issue over the past two years and may be a resource for information and video footage on this issue. NOW. Politics & Economy. The Privacy Wars | PBS

ALA Emerging Leaders page: http://wikis.ala.org/emergingleaders/index.php/Project_LL

"Spy on thy Neighbor" in Utne Reader 2/1/07
http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2007_285/news/12430-1.html

Privacy news tracking http://www.independent.org/issues/search.asp?subID=57

Best, Samuel J., Brian S. Krueger, and Jeffrey Ladewig. 2006. The polls--trends: privacy in the information age. Public Opinion Quarterly70(3): 375-401.

This article presents data on public opinion about privacy invasions and surveillance techniques since 1990.

Americans and Online Privacy: The System is Broken by Joseph Turow, June 2003. http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/Downloads/Information_And_Society/20030701_America_and_Online_Privacy/20030701_online_privacy_report.pdf

Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: The Right of Privacy
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/rightofprivacy.html

"The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes" by JR Raphael in PC World. http://www.pcworld.com/article/164527/the_hidden_secrets_of_online_quizzes.html
and this on Facebook. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_facebook_quizzes_know_about_you.php
Discussion frameworks:
League of Women Voters Local Voices discussion guide on Civil Liberties.

Public Agenda Internet discussion guide http://www.publicagenda.org/issues/debate.cfm?issue_type=internet

NIF streaming video http://www.nifi.org/discussion_guides/nif_demchallenge_7.html

Bill of Rights Defense Committee http://www.bordc.org/resources/

ALA OIF http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/interpretations/questionsanswers.htm

Daniel Solove's publications: http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dsolove/Solove-Publications.htm

Who Can have your Social Security Number?


Articles, interviews, etc.

Louise Story. "To Aim Ads, Web is Keeping Closer Eye on You." The New York Times March 10, 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/technology/10privacy.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Alexandra Marks - "Is It Impossible to Protect Your Privacy?" - http://www.alternet.org/rights/83023/

Bruce Schneier. 2008. On People, the Death of Privacy, and Data Pollution. EDUCAUSE Review (43)2 (March/April 2008)
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/OnPeopletheDeathofPrivacy/46321?time=1207624026

danah boyd. 2008. "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (14)1: 13-20.

Boyd also has many other papers about privacy and social networking: http://www.danah.org/papers/

Sheehan, Kim Bartel. 2004. How public opinion polls define and circumscribe online privacy. First Monday (9)7. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_7/sheehan/index.html

This study examines the language of 43 opinion polls and surveys dealing with privacy and the Internet to understand how these polls define and assess online privacy. Results suggest that polls treat the complex construction of privacy in an overly simplistic way. Additionally, pollsters present many poll questions in a way that may lead survey respondents to express stronger negative feelings about privacy than really exist.

Singer, Eleanor, et. al. 2003. Attitudes and Behavior: The Impact of Privacy and Confidentiality Concerns on Participation in the 2000 Census. Public Opinion Quarterly 67(3): 368-384.

Kasper, Dabbie V. S. 2005. The Evolution (or Devolution) of Privacy. Sociological Forum20(1): 69-92.

This paper explores changes in the meaning of privacy. Because individuals' understandings & experiences of privacy vary by sociohistorical contexts, privacy is difficult to define & even more challenging to measure. Avoiding common obstacles to privacy research, I examine privacy from the standpoint of its invasion.

Gautschi, Heidi. 2008. The True Price of Privacy: What Users are Willing to Exchange for (Free) Content. EContent (31)2: 26-30.

Kranich, Nancy. 2007. Librarians and Teen Privacy in the Age of Social Networking. Knowledge Quest 36(2): 34-7.