Digital hyper-transparency: leading e-government against privacy
| Autor: | José Estrada-Jiménez, Ana Rodriguez-Hoyos, Luis Urquiza-Aguiar, Jordi Forné, Javier Parra-Arnau |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Telemàtica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. SISCOM - Smart Services for Information Systems and Communication Networks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Informació oficial electrònica
Information privacy Internet Scrutiny business.industry 05 social sciences Internet privacy Fundamental rights Public institution 16. Peace & justice Internet (Computer network) Transparency (behavior) 0506 political science Information sensitivity Informàtica::Seguretat informàtica [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] 050602 political science & public administration Remuneration The Internet Business 0509 other social sciences Law administration personnel 050904 information & library sciences Data privacy Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors::Internet [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] Government data processing |
| Zdroj: | Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Popis: | © 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes,creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. For a long time, the Internet and web technologies have supported a more fluid interaction between public institutions and citizens through e-government. With this spirit, several public services are being offered online. One of such services, though not a standard one, is transparency. Strongly encouraged by open-data initiatives, transparency is being marketed as a powerful mechanism to fight corruption. Leveraging communication technologies, societies are broadly adopting online transparency practices to give the general public more control over the scrutiny of state institutions. However, a neglected implementation of transparency may cause almost unlimited access to large amounts of information, a side effect we call hyper-transparency. Inevitably, serious privacy risks arise for the individuals in this context. In this work, we analyze the emergence of hyper-transparent practices in Ecuador, a country recently involved in a fierce attempt to offer free access to public information as a fundamental right enabled through e-government. Moreover, we systematically dissect the large amount of microdata released online by Ecuadorian public institutions. Accordingly, we also unveil here a scenario where sensitive information of public employees is openly released under transparency laws. After exposing potential privacy violations, we elaborate on some mechanisms aimed at protecting citizens from such violations |
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