Abstract
Advances in information technology provide a new context in which our commitments to confidentiality and autonomy must be reviewed. Individualist ideology is our main resource for such review, and implies a conditional commitment to confidentiality. Personal information, on this account, may be disclosed against the subject's wishes, though only as necessary to protect the overriding interests of others; and a subject may be given access to personal information confided by a third party, against the third party's wishes, though only as necessary to protect the subject's overriding interests. This is inconsistent with the limitations on subject access available in the United Kingdom legislation under the Social Work Order or 1987, but in any case, there are grounds for thinking that confidentiality often marks a retreat in the face of social prejudice which we might more honourably resist.
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