The difference between secrecy and privacy as security concepts

The difference between secrecy and privacy as security concepts.

SteveTX stated in another thread the difference between privacy and anonymity - as I recall. I'll have to look that up to refresh my memory unless someone can reply to cover that aspect - and we can all bask in the glow of privacy, anonymity and secrecy, eh?

-- Tom

 

It's on the xb website.
https://xerobank.com/support/articl...yths/Myth-5-privacy-is-the-same-as-anonymity/

It doesn't cover the same ground as the article you cited, but is a good starting point for those who want to differentiate terms in regard to privacy and secrecy as well.

 

What's wrong with thinking of a "balance" between security and privacy.

An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment (single click download available here).

The Trouble With "Balance" Metaphors.

Very good reading on the topic of this thread.

-- Tom

 

i give a small explanation here.

 

..and while you are at it, please read the whole thread to get a sense of the context this was posted in

 

Thanks very much for those links. I hadn't seen what Kerr's been up to recently. Orin Kerr's theory of equilibrium adjustment is on par with his "technology neutrality" theory, below. Both are an effort to reassure jurists that the disastrous, untenable body of Fourth Amendment law they created has not been penned in vain, and they can just transfer the whole mess wholesale to internet technology, which he will happily oversimplify for them, in order to retrofit his analysis.

http://volokh.com/2010/04/28/the-in...technology-neutrality-a-response-to-horowitz/