Security in Computing, 6th Edition

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Privacy

In this chapter:

• Privacy as an aspect of security; confidentiality

• Authentication effects on privacy

• Privacy and the internet

After World War II, a committee led by Eleanor Roosevelt drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Passed in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly, the UDHR contains 30 articles detailing every human’s “basic rights and fundamental freedoms,” including privacy. Article 12 reads: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.” But computers’ high-speed processing and data storage and transmission ...