Breaching the Contract? Privacy and the UK Census

Information Society

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 316-328

  Heeney, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FILOSOFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

anonymization; census; confidentiality; contextual integrity; contract tradition; privacy; profiles; research data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866867441     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2012.709479     Document Type: Article

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