In this post for Privacy Perspectives, J. Trevor Hughes, CIPP, describes the privacy connections between two very different articles. In a piece for The New Yorker, Joshua Rothman writes of author Virginia Woolf’s concept of privacy, while the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Marc Rotenberg calls for “a reexamination of large Internet companies and their data practices” in The New York Times. “Both pieces explore the challenges presented by privacy,” Hughes writes, suggesting, “perhaps this very flux of the public/private balance is the essential truth of privacy?” Such a “view of privacy also requires agency of the individual and responsibility of the organizations using data,” Hughes writes, adding, “It suggests that we, privacy professionals, have much work ahead.”
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