E-Government and Privacy (Challenges and Solutions)

Abstract

E-government, with all its advantages in improving government processes, reducing costs, reducing bureaucracy, creating an e-community and facilitating communication with citizens, also has its weaknesses. The most important concern about the development and growth of e-government is the violation of citizens' rights in cyberspace. One of the most important citizenship rights in cyberspace is the right to information privacy. Information privacy is a right. The right that individuals have to control their information against misplaced searches, eavesdropping, spying, misappropriation and misuse of personal information. In this article, the concept and models of e-government are examined and the concept of citizens' information privacy and its relationship with e-government is stated. For citizens' information privacy in e-government, the challenge of information privacy and e-government maturity, the challenge of information privacy and public interest, the protection of information privacy and freedom of information and the challenge of granting citizens the right to access information in e-government are the most important challenges of this study. have been identified