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      Privacy in the Age of the Internet

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      Date
      2009
      Author
      Russell, Bronwen Elizabeth
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      This paper addresses the claim that there is “zero privacy” for Canadians on the internet. For the interpersonal computing era 1992 to 2007, the relationship between the three major agents (i.e., individual users, federal government, and business) operating on the internet was examined. Three questions guided the research: how has the popular press educated Canadians about internet privacy? what has been the response of the federal government? how have online companies protected the privacy of Canadians? Content analyses of (a) Maclean’s magazine, (b) the Privacy Commissioner's Annual Reports to Parliament, (c) and the privacy policies of the most visited websites were conducted. Complex Adaptive Systems theory indicated that privacy is an emergent property arising from the interaction of the agents and that the internet is an environment where the agents' interactions lead to limited privacy.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      Sociology
      Program
      Sociology
      Supervisor
      Cheng, Hongming
      Committee
      Hudson, Robert; Iliopoulou, Despina; Wotherspoon, Terry
      Copyright Date
      2009
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-04112009-104750
      Subject
      internet
      internet privacy
      complex adaptive systems
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