Privacy Please: A Privacy Curriculum Taxonomy (PCT) For The Era Of Personal Intelligence

Abstract

This paper extends forward thinking by information ethics and business education scholars to introduce a Privacy Curriculum Taxonomy (PCT) that repurposes business curricula around the emerging personal information privacy paradigm. The seminal challenge confronting business education leaders is to respond to the ontological paradigm shift from a physical society driven by material and monetary processes, towards a digital society driven by information supply and the growing demand for information privacy. The PCT is advanced as an initial framework for engaging business curriculum planners in the considerations required to repurpose existing disciplines around digital society information and privacy processes. After a current literature review, the PCT is developed using a foundational set of information assurance principles. The PCT is business discipline specific, to catalyze incubation and further development within and across functional areas.