Abstract
Privacy concerns are increasing, despite considerable government legislation
and organizational resources expended in addressing them. In this
paper, we explore the historical and contemporary influences on privacy
legislation that redirect privacy efforts towards data, and data
sharing. Particularly, we use actor-network theory (ANT) to discover
and trace the development, translation and subsequent spread of the
influence of international privacy principles (fair information principles,
FIP) into de facto standards for addressing privacy concerns. Despite
the acceptance of the "black box" of FIP, by official actants across
30 years, its enlistment has enhanced rather than prevented, the
sharing of data. Our investigation offers insight into the complex
interaction among various social, political and technical elements
that have influenced the framing and discourse on privacy: from the
early conflict among potential possibilities envisioned in emerging
information and communication technologies and diverse concerns about
those same potentials, to the development of FIP and how through
enlistment, drifts, happenstance, convenience and expediency, its
influence has been extended to shape the constitution of privacy
across time and space.
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