Talk:Alan F. Westin

About awards

Let's add this to the Awards section: the Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award:

http://patientprivacyrights.org/2012/06/top-experts-discuss-privacy-risks-at-2nd-international-summit-on-the-future-of-health-privacy/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewOram (talk • contribs) 17:59, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

Wrong quotation?

I cannot find the quote "to control, edit, manage, and delete information about them[selves] and decide when, how, and to what extent information is communicated to others." in my printed version of Alan Westins "Privacy and Freedom" (1967 Atheneum New York) there is a similar but different one on page 7 ("Privacy is the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others."). Anyone can confirm the quote in the article with a page number? — Preceding unsigned comment added by XSfDFaI (talk • contribs) 14:43, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

I agree that the quote that appeared in the article up to now is a misquote. I've quoted his page 7 definition many times and in many works, and have now fixed it here. JimHarperDC (talk) 16:46, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

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Non-neutral critical material

I wonder if the penultimate paragraph in the "Work" section is gratuitously critical of Westin's work. The critics cited have viewpoints that differ with his on the merits. They are not analysts of bias and its presence or absence.

I shouldn't be the judge of it because I tend to agree with Westin. But if someone who is not involved in privacy debates judges the critical material imbalanced, I'd encourage making it more even.

(This assumes that a person exists who is not involved in the privacy debate somehow or opinionated on the topic.)

JimHarperDC (talk) 20:01, 10 February 2022 (UTC)