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cyberprivacy en · NOUN

Etymology

From cyber- + privacy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Privacy in cyberspace.
    • Berkowitz used the phrase "cyber privacy" to discuss the potential threats posed by cyber surveillance methods to personal privacy. 2000 July 19, Bruce D. Berkowitz, “Carnivore Won't Devour Cyber-Privacy”, in The Wall Street Journal:
    • 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... 1997 January, Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert, “The Ambiguity of Privacy Rights: Lost in Electronic Space”, in Free Speech Yearbook, volume 35, →DOI:
    • ...there is no comprehensive privacy law in the United States that covers all aspects of cyberprivacy... 2008, Narain Dass Batra, Digital freedom: how much can you handle?, page 101:
    • Their subject — hostile corporate takeovers — seems far from cyberprivacy, but it is not. 2007 December 23, Christopher Caldwell, “Intimate Shopping”, in New York Times:

Synonyms

e-privacy