Privacy Issues in Digital Business Operations

Business communication
(Assessment 1A: Annotated bibliography)

Topic: Privacy issues in digital business operations
Caron, X., Bosua, R., Maynard, S. B., & Ahmad, A. (2016). The Internet of Things (IoT) and
its impact on individual privacy: An Australian perspective. Computer Law & Security
Review, 32(1), 4-15. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2015.12.001>
The author Xavier Caron is a professor at University De Lorraine, Rachelle Bosua,
Sean B. Maynard and Atif Ahmad are an assistant professor in the Computing and
information department, University of Melbourne. These authors have provided information
about the issues in the digitalisation of business. The article has provided critical information
related to the privacy issues due to the digitalization of business. The digital business
involves research and development functions that require data collection and communication
through an online medium. Therefore, IoT is a challenge for an individual to manage privacy.
However, the consideration of privacy principle is essential for the organization but lack of
monitoring and control over access of system affecting the privacy functions using digital
operations. The authors were lacking to provide descriptive knowledge as Hendrik Drachsler
and Wolfgang Greller. The study is useful for understanding the legitimation issues that
affecting the digitalisation of business and expansion of services.
Weinberg, B. D., Milne, G. R., Andonova, Y. G., & Hajjat, F. M. (2015). Internet of Things:
Convenience vs. privacy and secrecy. Business Horizons, 58(6), 615-624.
<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2015.06.005>
Bruce D. Weinberg, George R. Milne and Fatima M. Hajjat are working in Isenberge
School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. Apart from that, Yana
G. Andonova is an assistant professor in Bauernfeind College of Business, Murray State
University USA. In the current article, the authors have provided information related to
business issues such as lack of privacy in the utilization of the Internet of Things. The
Industrial Internet of Thing is beneficial for expanding business and transformation of
operation into a digital context. However, the lack of privacy and approach to utilising the
Internet of Things is having a negative impact on the business approach of the organization.
The authors have provided detail information considering the consumer experience and
managerial issues of privacy in digital business but Rolf H. Weber has provided numerical
data related to business issues by use of digitalisation means. The study is useful to
understand the approach of the Internet of Things in implications of lack of privacy.
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Drachsler, H., & Greller, W. (2016, April). Privacy and analytics: it's a DELICATE issue a
checklist for trusted learning analytics. In Proceedings of the sixth international
conference on learning analytics & knowledge (pp. 89-98). ACM.
<doi>10.1145/2883851.2883893>
Authors of this article are Hendrik Drachsler and Wolfgang Greller professor at Open
University of Netherlands and University of Education, Vienna, Australia respectively. In this
article, the authors have provided a detailed analysis of privacy issues that stakeholders are
facing by utilizing digital tools. During the study, the authors have investigated the issues of
lack in policies that created the problem of leak of data on user privacy. The article has
provided information for learning analytics for improving the knowledge of users for
managing the data that can overcome the issue for privacy. However, the author lacks in
quantitative analysis as Ruth Halperin and Yuval Dror have done to provide critical views
about issues in digitalisation of business. The study is useful to gain an understanding of the
learning and privacy of the users to maintain effectiveness in collecting and accessing the
data through digital approaches.
Weber, R. H. (2015). The digital future–A challenge for privacy?. Computer Law & Security
Review, 31(2), 234-242. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2015.01.003>
Rolf H. Weber is a professor at International Business Law at the University of
Zurich, Switzerland. The article has discussed the data protection policies and laws that are
having a significant impact on the privacy operations of users that are using the digital
business methods. The article has also discussed the digital technologies elements that
creating issues related to Big Data, digital identity, biometrics and social media sites. These
digital mediums are having issues of privacy that affecting an individual's privacy. The
outcomes of the article involve information for minimizing the privacy issues through privacy
sphere of individual and infringements. The authors were lacking in descriptive analysis of
business problems and concluding the impact of digitalisation in business that was effectively
presented by Xavier Caron, Sean B. Maynard and Atif Ahmad. The study is useful to increase
the knowledge related to the utilization of digital business method and checking of the
privacy functions that could be beneficial to overcome the problem that faced by the business
organizations in the current scenario.
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