Title: Towards workable privacy for UK e-government on the web

Authors: Andrew Tolley, Darren Mundy

Addresses: IT, Scarborough Borough Council, Scarborough, YO11 2HG, UK. ' School of Arts and New Media, University of Hull, Scarborough Campus, Scarborough, YO11 3AZ, UK

Abstract: There are significant privacy challenges for local and regional government websites as consumers raise concerns over the protection and use of their information. This research considers whether a privacy policy standard can be constructed, based on accepted principles of fair use, for implementation in the UK e-government domain. The approach taken was to build a privacy policy standard, construct a generation tool and evaluate the product within a case study methodology using a group of professionals from the e-government domain. The results confirm that a privacy policy standard would benefit the creation of privacy statements for implementation on e-government websites.

Keywords: e-government; privacy protection; privacy policy; internet; P3P; platform for privacy preferences project; goal orientated analysis; t-government; security management; policy management; security; electronic government; local government websites; regional government websites; UK; United Kingdom.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEG.2009.024965

International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2009 Vol.2 No.1, pp.74 - 88

Accepted: 30 Jan 2009
Published online: 05 May 2009 *

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