The Private Sector’s Privacy Puzzle
Many privacy concerns are based on concrete interests, such as preserving financial security or obscuring information that could compromise one’s employment or ability to get affordable health insurance. But there is also a more personal aspect: the tension between the desire to be known and the desire to protect one’s secrets.
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NEW YORK – Why is privacy such a challenge for private companies? (Governments have their own problems, but that is another story.) Beyond privacy laws, companies must cope with customers with varying expectations, competitors with varying levels of integrity, and the various relationships that form the context of data exchange.