%0 Journal Article
%T It¡¯s Not Child¡¯s Play: The Online Invasion of Children¡¯s Privacy
%A Valerie Steeves
%J University of Ottawa Law and Technology Journal
%D 2006
%I 
%X Privacy laws based on fair information practices have been ineffective in protecting children¡¯s online privacy because they are based on a narrow interpretation of Alan Westin¡¯s definition of privacy as informational control. Although Westin¡¯s original definition started with informational control, it continued to discuss privacy in the context of an interpersonal boundary. Similarly, Westin¡¯s original legislative program included fair information practices, but they were only the fifth step in a five-step process that first required organizations seeking to use surveillance to prove that the surveillance was socially appropriate. This paper seeks to reclaim these forgotten elements of Westin¡¯s work. It suggests that privacy is the boundary between the self and the other that is negotiated through inter-subjective communication. An examination of the ways in which commercial websites invade children¡¯s privacy demonstrates that this alternative conceptualization of privacy better enables legislators to protect children¡¯s privacy because it takes both their social experiences and their developmental needs into account, and frees the legislative debate from narrow issues of consent. This alternative conceptualization also helps to revitalize Westin¡¯s original legislative framework by bringing the purposes for surveillance into question. *************** Les lois relatives ¨¤ la protection de la vie priv¨¦e fond¨¦es sur les pratiques d¡¯information justes n¡¯assurent pas efficacement la s¨¦curit¨¦ des enfants en ligne parce qu¡¯elles reposent sur une interpr¨¦tation ¨¦troite de la d¨¦finition de vie priv¨¦e de Alan Westin en tant que contr le de l¡¯information. Bien que la d¨¦finition originale de Westin partait de la notion de contr le de l¡¯information, elle s¡¯¨¦tendait ¨¤ aussi ¨¤ la vie priv¨¦e dans le contexte des fronti¨¨res interpersonnelles. Similairement, le programme l¨¦gislatif original de Westin englobait les pratiques d¡¯information justes, mais en tant que cinqui¨¨me ¨¦l¨¦ment d¡¯une d¨¦marche en cinq points que devaient utiliser les organisations pour d¨¦montrer que la surveillance ¨¦tait socialement l¨¦gitime. Cet article veut redonner vie aux ¨¦l¨¦ments oubli¨¦s du travail de Westin. Il sugg¨¨re que la vie priv¨¦e est la fronti¨¨re entre le moi et les autres qui se n¨¦gocie par la communication intersubjective. Un examen de la fa on dont les sites Web commerciaux envahissent la vie priv¨¦e des enfants r¨¦v¨¨le que cette nouvelle conceptualisation de la vie priv¨¦e permet aux l¨¦gislateurs de mieux prot¨¦ger la vie priv¨¦e des enfants parce qu¡¯elle tient compte ¨¤ la fois de leurs exp¨¦r
%K children
%K privacy
%K online marketing
%K Alan Westin
%K surveillance
%U http://www.uoltj.ca/articles/vol3.1/2006.3.1.uoltj.Steeves.169-188.pdf