Privacy and Property in the Global Datasphere

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Author(s): D. L. Burk (University of Minnesota Law School, USA)
Copyright: 2007
Pages: 14
Source title: Information Technology Ethics: Cultural Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Soraj Hongladarom (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)and Charles Ess (University of Drury, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-310-4.ch007

Keywords: Information Ethics / Information Science Reference / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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Abstract

Adoption of information technologies is dependent upon the availability of information to be channeled via such technologies. Although many cultural approaches to information control have been identified, two increasingly ubiquitous regimes are battling for dominance in the international arena. These may be termed the utilitarian and deontological approaches and may be identified roughly with the United States and the continental European tradition. Each approach has been aggressively promulgated by its respective proponent via international treaty regimes in the areas of privacy and intellectual property, to the virtual exclusion of other alternatives. Absent a drastic shift in international treaty dynamics, these dominant conceptions likely will curtail the development of alternate approaches that might otherwise emerge from local culture and tradition.

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