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Information Technology in a Digital Age basic question has to do
with what aspects of a person’s life are relevant to the
question of privacy. Ruth Gavison, professor of human rights at
the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, defines privacy along three
axes: the first has to do with access to information about the
person (secrecy), the second has to do with knowledge of the
person’s identity (anonymity), and the third has to do with
access to the physical proximity of the person (solitude).8
University of Pennsylvania professor of law Anita Allen’s early
work distinguished among informationa