The use of information technology to enhance management school education: a theoretical view
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on IS curricula and pedagogy
Managing user perceptions of email privacy
Communications of the ACM
The ethical and legal quandary of email privacy
Communications of the ACM
Does electronic monitoring of employee internet usage work?
Communications of the ACM - Internet abuse in the workplace and Game engines in scientific research
End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
Principles of Informational Ethics
Principles of Informational Ethics
Computer and Information Ethics
Computer and Information Ethics
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
Research Commentary: Technology-Mediated Learning--A Call for Greater Depth and Breadth of Research
Information Systems Research
Biometrics: past, present and future
Current security management & Ethical issues of information technology
Cyberethics: Morality And Law in Cyberspace
Cyberethics: Morality And Law in Cyberspace
Law, privacy and information technology: a sleepwalk through the surveillance society?
Information and Communications Technology Law - Privacy and the public/private divide
studiVZ: social networking in the surveillance society
Ethics and Information Technology
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One of the characteristics shared by most, if not all, aspects of the e-phenomenon is that it poses new challenges to privacy. This paper will discuss the concept of privacy and analyse which differences regarding the attention to privacy exist between different sectors. Based on a broad literature review on the ethical foundations of privacy, we have identified three research questions: What are the reasons given by organisations to protect privacy? What is the perceived nature of privacy? How do organisations address different stakeholders? These questions are explored by analysing the privacy policies of organisations from three different sectors: e-commerce, e-teaching and e-government. We will argue that the three sectors come to different answers to the above questions but that privacy is an overarching concern that needs to be addressed. It is therefore justified to say that the e-phenomenon exists, at least in so far as it creates a necessity for organisations to consider the issues raised by privacy.