CSCW creates a new electronic frontier in which people’s rights and obligations about access and control over personally sensitive information have not been systematically articulated … we need to better understand the nature of information practices with regard to different CSCW applications that balance fairness to individuals and to their organizations.
Predictor: Kling, Rob
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Computer-Mediated Communication, Rob Kling, a professor at the University of California at Irvine, writes: ”CSCW [computer-supported cooperative work] creates a new electronic frontier in which people’s rights and obligations about access and control over personally sensitive information have not been systematically articulated … we need to better understand the nature of information practices with regard to different CSCW applications that balance fairness to individuals and to their organizations … We are designing and building the information infrastructures for recording significant amounts of information about people thoughts and feelings which are essentially private and not for arbitrary circulation, without the guidelines to safeguard them. People who use computer and telecommunications applications need to have a basic understanding about which information is being recorded, how long it is retained (even if they “delete” information from their local files, who can access information about them, and when they can have some control over restricting access to their information.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Privacy/Surveillance
Name of publication: Computer-Mediated Communication
Title, headline, chapter name: Fair Information Practices with Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1994/jun/cscw.html
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