Security and privacy: similarities and differences

  • Authors:
  • Willis H. Ware

  • Affiliations:
  • The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '67 (Spring) Proceedings of the April 18-20, 1967, spring joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1967

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Abstract

For the purposes of this paper we will use the term "security" when speaking about computer systems which handle classified defense information, and "privacy" in regard to those computer systems which handle non-defense information which nonetheless must be protected because it is in some respect sensitive. It should be noted at the outset that the context in which security must be considered is quite different from that which can be applied to the privacy question. With respect to classified military information there are federal regulations which establish authority, and discipline to govern the conduct of people who work with such information. Moreover, there is an established set of categories into which information is classified. Once information is classified Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret, there are well-defined requirements for its protection, for controlling access to it, and for transmitting it from place to place. In the privacy situation, analogous/conditions may exist only in part or not at all.