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In this paper, we will explore a number of political issues associated with the debate over privacy concerns on the information highway. Among the approaches that have been proposed for protecting personal privacy, especially in North America, the four main ones are government legislation, self-regulation, security, and education. In this paper, a position in support of government legislation for privacy protection is adopted and defended over voluntarism and self-regulation. Most of the sources used are reports, proposals, and statements, produced or commissioned by government agencies in Canada, the United States (US), and the European Community. Given that governments have political agendas that are shaped by a combination of forces, it is a necessary and important exercise to identify the items on these agendas and to evaluate their relative strengths in order to anticipate the likelihood that personal privacy will be adequately protected in the future. Current privacy policies in Canada and the US are similar and differ substantially from those of many European countries.
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Rosenberg, R.S. (1997). The politics of privacy on the global information highway. In: Berleur, J., Whitehouse, D. (eds) An Ethical Global Information Society. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35327-2_25
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