cyberprivacy

English

Etymology

From cyber- +‎ privacy.

Noun

cyberprivacy (uncountable)

1. Privacy in cyberspace.

1. • 1997 January, Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert, “The Ambiguity of Privacy Rights: Lost in Electronic Space”, in Free Speech Yearbook, volume 35, →DOI:

     The extent to which a sender can ascertain that the recipient(s) have received a message as sent has become increasingly significant in cyberspace and has generated some of the most heated debate and litigation in the realm of cyber-privacy... While interpersonal cyber-privacy is uncertain, so is the private use of some materials and data. Concern over secure transactions over the Internet have surfaced...

   • 2000 July 19, Bruce D. Berkowitz, “Carnivore Won't Devour Cyber-Privacy”, in The Wall Street Journal‎^[1]:

     Berkowitz used the phrase "cyber privacy" to discuss the potential threats posed by cyber surveillance methods to personal privacy.

   • 2007 December 23, Christopher Caldwell, “Intimate Shopping”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     Their subject — hostile corporate takeovers — seems far from cyberprivacy, but it is not.

   • 2008, Narain Dass Batra, Digital freedom: how much can you handle?, page 101:

     ...there is no comprehensive privacy law in the United States that covers all aspects of cyberprivacy...

Synonyms

• e-privacy