Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds

Mary C. Lacity is David D. Glass Chair and Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. She was previously Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri. She has held visiting positions at MIT, the London School of Economics, Washington University, and Oxford University. She is Founding Co-editor of the Palgrave Series on Technology, Work, and Globalization. She has published 32 books on the topics related to technology, work, and globalization, including authoring and co-editing nine books in the series. Lynda Coon is Professor of History and Dean of the Honors College at the University of Arkansas. In 2023, she organized a cross-disciplinary course called Privacy, recruiting professors from architecture, political science, engineering, medicine, business, philosophy, data science, and library sciences to teach the course. Coon’s research focuses on the history of Christianity from circa 300-900. Her first book, Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity, explored the sacred biographies of holy women in late antiquity. Her second book, Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West, focused on the ritual, spatial, and gendered worlds of monks in the Carolingian period (ca. 750-987).

Chapter 1. Introduction to Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds.- Foundations of human privacy:. Chapter 2. Exploring Privacy from a Philosophical Perspective: Conceptual and Normative Dimensions.- Chapter 3. What's so special about private parts?  How anthropology questions the public-private dichotomy.- Technical views of privacy:. Chapter 4. Privacy in the Digital Age: Navigating the Risks and Benefits of Cybersecurity Measures.- Chapter 5. Data Governance, Privacy, and Ethics.- Chapter 6. Web2 versus Web3 information privacy: an Information Systems discipline perspective.- Chapter 7. Multi-party computation: Privacy in Coopetition.- Chapter 8. Zero Knowledge Proofs and Privacy: A Technical Look at Privacy.- Domain-specific view of privacy. Chapter 9. An Architect's View of Privacy.- Chapter 10. Healthcare Privacy in an Electronic Data Age.- Chapter 11. Privacy Considerations in Archival Practice and Research.- Chapter 12. Employee and customer information privacy concerns in supply chain management