The technology of team navigation
Intellectual teamwork
The integration of distributed knowledge in collaborative medical diagnosis
Intellectual teamwork
Private lives and public policies: confidentiality and accessibility of government statistics
Private lives and public policies: confidentiality and accessibility of government statistics
Computing at work: empowering action by “low-level users”
Communications of the ACM
Computerization and controversy (2nd ed.)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Convergence revisited: toward a global policy for the protection of personal data?
Technology and privacy
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Sorting things out: classification and its consequences
Information Technology in a Democracy
Information Technology in a Democracy
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Hi-index | 0.00 |
Public concern about personal privacy has recently focused on issues of Internet data security and personal information as big business. The scientific discourse about information privacy focuses on the crosspressures of maintaining confidentiality and ensuring access in the context of the production of statistical data for public policy and social research and the associated technical solutions for releasing statistical data. This article reports some of the key findings from a small-scale survey of organizational practices to limit disclosure of confidential information prior to publishing public use microdata files, and illustrates how the rules for preserving confidentiality were applied in practice. Explanation for the apparent deficits and wide variations in the extent of knowledge about statistical disclosure limitation (SDL) methods is located in theories of organizational life and communities of practice. The article concludes with suggestions for improving communication between communities of practice to enhance the knowledge base of those responsible for producing public use microdata files.