This investigation explored the role of informational and psychological privacy in the health context by examining the relationship between type of relationship (physician versus acquaintance), type of observation (self-report versus observation), and communication strategies used to restore or preserve privacy (interaction control, dyadic strategies, expressions of negative arousal, blocking and avoidance, distancing, and confrontation). It was hypothesized and confirmed that individuals report exhibiting more behaviors to restore or preserve informational privacy in response to an informationally privacy-invasive question posed by an acquaintance than by a physician. The hypothesis that presentation of an informationally privacy invasive question by the physician causes patients to exhibit more communication strategies after the privacy invasive question than before, was unsupported. Finally, the hypothesis that individuals actually exhibit more privacy restoration behaviors than they report using in a similar situation with their physician was also unsupported. Patients reported using more communication strategies than they actually exhibited. One confound to the self reports was that videotaped participants reported the use of fewer direct privacy restoring communication strategies than non-videotaped.

CHDS State/Local / The need for domestic intelligence and information sharing to detect indications and warnings of terrorist acts and prevent them has raised privacy and civil liberties concerns. The relationship between national security and privacy and civil liberties is often modeled as a scale with security on one end and privacy and civil liberties on the other. Success is said to be achieved when security and privacy are balanced. This model forces these values to be traded in a zero-sum game. A new model that decreases the "cost" to privacy and increases the "value" to security is needed. Technological, policy and organizational innovation hold promise in designing new intelligence and information-sharing architectures capable of detecting indications and warnings of terrorism and protecting the privacy and civil liberties of Americans. Using government documents that articulate attributes for a terrorism early warning system and widely accepted privacy principles as design requirements, the thesis examines technologies that could meet the challenges of both security and privacy. Designing and building a system that supports both security and privacy will benefit both. The thesis argues, this system will enable the Nation to fight terrorism while upholding the liberties that form the core values of the American people. / Captain (Capt), US Northern Command (Northcom) - NORAD J5

With the advancement of information technology and declining hardware price, organizations and companies are able to collect large amount of personal data. Individual health records, product preferences and membership information are all converted into digital format. The ability to store and retrieve large amount of electronic records benefits many parties. Useful knowledge often hides in a large pool of raw data. In many customer-centric applications, customers want to find some "best" services according to their needs. However, since different customers may have different preferences to find "best" services, different services are suggested accordingly to different customers. In this thesis, we study models for different customer needs. Besides, customers also want to protect their individual privacy in many applications. In this thesis, we also study how individual privacy can be protected. / Wong, Chi Wing. / "June 2008." / Adviser: Ada Wai-Chee Fu. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-03, Section: B, page: 1770. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-137). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--RAND Graduate School, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Konstanz, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-176) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Trier, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-421) and index.

This dissertation is a collection of three essays that study the market for consumer information. The first chapter studies the role of information intermediaries and their impact on consumer privacy. The second chapter presents an analysis of signaling in credit and insurance markets through default and repayment decisions. The third chapter studies some special topics such the manipulation of credit histories by fake borrowing or deletion of records. It also identifies a learning mechanism through which uninformed consumers can endogenously learn the link between credit market behavior and insurance market outcomes. / text

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Thesis (DTech. degree in Computer Science and Data Processing: Software Development.)--Tshwane University of Technology, 2012. / Based on the fundamental assumption that individuals view their privacy differently, this study attempts to find a solution on how to protect the personal information of an individual stored in a relational database system against privacy violations. Secondly, to determine how the Hippocratic principles can be effectively applied to give individuals better control over their personal information, while at the same time allowing the organisation to process its transactions on the same personalised information. In answering these problems, the study established a set of extended principles to which the collection and the use of personal data should strictly hold.