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What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Privacy in Collaborative Computing

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People and Computers XI

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Privacy is a popular subject in the CSCW literature but has largely been addressed as an issue of security by systems designers. With the growth of networked, multimedia CSCW systems comes an increasing need for better control over how people gain access to one another and to potentially shareable information. This paper poses some challenges for CSCW developers and provides some examples of systems which are beginning to meet such challenges.

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    Victoria Bellotti

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Bellotti, V. (1996). What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Privacy in Collaborative Computing. In: Sasse, M.A., Cunningham, R.J., Winder, R.L. (eds) People and Computers XI. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3588-3_16

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