Privacy: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Leslie Francis is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law at the University of Utah, where she also serves as director of the Center for Law and Biomedical Sciences.

John G. Francis is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.

Together, they have co-authored a number of articles on the use of health information with an especial emphasis on transparency and non-discrimination.

Part 1: What are the principal ways in which privacy has been understood?

Part 2: What is your own position with respect to privacy? How do privacy's protections and importance vary depending on your social context?

Part 3: What are different attitudes concerning privacy and why has it been valued?

Part 4: How much or how little is privacy currently protected?

Part 5: Why does it matter if personal and private information is shared? What are the limits to acceptable privacy?

Part 6: What are the two primary emerging social images of privacy? Where are we headed?