Questions on the textbook article "Computers and Privacy" by Stacey Edgar

• How do you define privacy? Do you agree that privacy is important for a healthy development of a human being? Do you think that an individual has a right to privacy?
• The article gives examples of people's privacy violated with help of modern computer technology, it also gives a list of laws and regulations related to privacy. These examples mostly refer to beginning of the 1990th. What has changed since then? Can you give any new examples and/or regulations (find articles and sources, if possible)? How does the Internet change the situation (if at all)? Is there more privacy or more surveillance now, compared to 10 years ago?
• What information is available nowadays about a person? Who can gain access to this information? Which of these uses would you characterize as legitimate?
• If an organization keeps a record of private information about an individual, what are responsibility of this organization to protect the information?