'Valuing' Privacy While Exposing Data Utility

摘要

Protecting data privacy is an area of increasing concern as the general public has become increasingly impacted by its inability to guarantee that those things we wish to hold private remain private. The concept of privacy is found in the earliest writing of mankind and continues today to be a very high value in modern society. Unfortunately, challenges to privacy have always existed and at times, these challenges have become so strong that any real sense of personal privacy was assumed to unattainable. This occurred in the middle-ages when communal living was normative, at least among the poor, so it was necessary to accept this as a simple matter of fact.