Author(s): Dobson JE
Abstract: There is a sharp distinction between a software-oriented view of information and a social view. This distinction has particular implications for the design choices involved in the integration of a conceptual model of security with a conceptual model of data. Such integration raises some difficult philosophical problems. A case study is examined to support the argument that reconciliation of security and privacy issues with data modelling issues through gross over-simplifying assumptions is not only a retreat from the problems we have identified, but can be positively damaging and counter-productive A methodological approach is required to analyse problems where values, organisational and social issues, and facts are intertwined. Relevant ideas from philosophy are raided in order to show how such a methodological approach may be structured, and the details of a design schema are outlined.
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Emeritus Professor John Dobson
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