Research Journal Pt 1- "Privacy"- GVRL

I find it interesting that I am doing a research project on the term 'privacy' and reporting the results on a public blog tool. I am processing this concept as I wade through my own thoughts regarding the many facets of this topic and how it affects me and my circle of significant people.

There is much debate in the public and professional sectors regarding the definition, need, and right of privacy. Using the Gale Virtual Reference Library, I found many articles that revealed connected issues in areas such as social science, medicine, technology, the legal system, gender and sexuality, religion, national security, and the Constitution.

Here are some of the terms that were referenced in the articles.
policies, law, justification, autonomy, ethics, constitutional law, human rights, health records, mandatory national ID cards, legal boundaries

Some of the concepts that were addressed in the articles were:

• "the nonabsolute moral right of persons to have direct or indirect control over access to... information about oneself" (Van Den Hoven 1490)
• who can access the information and for what purposes can it be used
• "constitutional or decisional privacy" compared to "tort or informational privacy" (Van Den Hoven 1490).
• prejudicial issues that surround gender, sexuality, and health care concerns
• free flow of information with few safeguards or assurances
• our inability to control who might have access to sensitive documents.
• the concern that our data could be used for profit in a society that is is often driven more by greed rather than integrity.
• the right of commerce versus the right to control the use of our own information

Works Cited

"National Identity Card." Human and Civil Rights: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and K. Lee Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 431-433. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale. Clark College, Cannell Library. 2 Oct. 2009 .

Van Den Hoven, Jeroen. "Privacy." Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. Carl Mitcham. Vol. 3. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 1490-1492. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale. Clark College, Cannell Library. 2 Oct. 2009

**Note: This blog format would not allow me to add webpage notations in the Reference Section and I had difficulty using the usual double space and indentation format recommended in a Works Cited list.

**Note: (added Oct 5) No author was named for the first citation (National Identity Card).