Privacy And Information Security

Privacy can be defined in many way from different perspective such as privacy for a person, and an organization. According to Cambridge University Press (2015), privacy can be defined as someone’s right to keep their personal matter and relationships secret and a statement of being alone. Privacy is something related to personal matter and secret of someone from known by others people. Privacy means need some space and not monitored or observed by any people.

According to American Library Association (2015), privacy it an important way to express speech, thought and association. This means that, privacy is personal opinion and people can speech whatever they want to talk. The organization also stated, in a library whether physical or virtual,

It is embarrass if the users is accessing his/her personal matter. The objective of the library for keeping computer display at open because to avoid users especially children from accessing offensive website such as porn website. This is because the website can influence the children. The librarians can monitor the activity of its users directly and react spontaneously to the particular users. This situation show that, the privacy of the users are invasion by the librarians. The users may not comfortable during accessing something from internet if his/her action being watched or examined by the librarians. The users maybe want a private space for them in accessing the internet materials. Private space can ensure the users privacy cannot be interrupted by anyone else. They can simply access the material confidently without any

It is essential for a librarian to keep secret about their users personal details. They librarian also should not simply distribute their users personal details as the leaking of information can harm the particular user. In addition, distributing personal information of somebody else is an unethical behavior. Besides that, it is a profesional ethics of librarian to secure the information of their users unless there is an order or request form court. Which means, to investigate the particular person whether he/she do commit an offences. But, the police officer cannot just simply came to the library and ask the librarian to expose information about the related user or person needed, indeed, the police officer should bring along warrant and show the warrant to the librarian, then the librarian can give information about that particular