Privacy and Autonomy: On Some Misconceptions Concerning the Political Dimensions of Privacy

Mokrosińska, Dorota

doi:10.1007/s10982-017-9307-3

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Privacy regulators are driven by a traditional liberal view of privacy, which centers on defending individual rights against the collective and sees privacy's primary purpose in protecting individual autonomy [WB90,Wes67,Ben84,Mok18]. Accordingly, privacy laws are characterized by a public private dichotomy and are typically only applicable to safeguard individuals' reasonable expectations of privacy over publicly not available information from unjustified intrusions.…”

Section: Notions Of Privacymentioning

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Data Fusion Challenges Privacy: What Can Privacy Regulation Do?

Erdélyi¹,

Erdélyi²,

Kempa-Liehr³

2021

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Modern information and communication technology practices present novel threats to privacy. We focus on some shortcomings in current data protection regulation's ability to adequately address the ramifications of AI-driven data processing practices, in particular those of combining data sets. We propose that privacy regulation relies less on individuals' privacy expectations and recommend regulatory reform in two directions: (1) abolishing the distinction between personal and anonymized data for the purposes of triggering the application of data protection laws and (2) developing methods to prioritize regulatory intervention based on the level of privacy risk posed by individual data processing actions. This is an interdisciplinary paper that intends to build a bridge between the various communities involved in privacy research. We put special emphasis on linking technical notions with their regulatory implications and introducing the relevant technical and legal terminology in use to foster more efficient coordination between the policymaking and technical communities and enable a timely solution of the problems raised.

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Section: Notions Of Privacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Fusion Challenges Privacy: What Can Privacy Regulation Do?

Erdélyi¹,

Erdélyi²,

Kempa-Liehr³

2021

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“…Third, authors have drawn on John Stuart Mill's intuition that democratic societies always run the risk of establishing a 'tyranny of the majority' that imposes its particular views regarding the good life or regarding proper behavior on non-consenting minorities, precluding not only 'experiments in living' but also any meaningful development of a sense of individuality (Lever 2006). As long as universal tolerance remains an unachieved ideal, intentional non-attention in public seems to form one of the most promising social practices that allow people with wildly different conceptions of the good life to refrain from interfering with each other (Nagel 1998;Mokrosinska 2017).…”

Section: Philosophical Approaches To Privacy In Publicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Privacy in Public: A Democratic Defense

Stahl

2020

Moral Philosophy and Politics

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Traditional arguments for privacy in public suggest that intentionally public activities, such as political speech, do not deserve privacy protection. In this article, I develop a new argument for the view that surveillance of intentionally public activities should be limited to protect the specific good that this context provides, namely democratic legitimacy. Combining insights from Helen Nissenbaum’s contextualism and Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, I argue that strategic surveillance of the public sphere can undermine the capacity of citizens to freely deliberate in public and therefore conflicts with democratic self-determination.

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“…Despite these practice oriented criticisms of control‐based understanding of privacy, as well as its philosophical foundation of individual autonomy , control based privacy went on to function as a shared foundation among studies and practices of privacy today. For instance, it has been informing privacy related policies and laws (Cohen ; Mokrosinska, ; Richards, ). The world's strongest data protection regulation, according to Burgess (), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union, requires companies to give their users explanations about the decisions made using their personal data so that individuals can have control over their data (Baulch, ).…”

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Relational privacy: Where the East and the West could meet

2019

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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This paper argues that relational privacy can be used as a starting point for conceptualizing privacy in Eastern cultures for it aligns with an Eastern philosophical conception of person. This paper starts with one of the main conceptions of privacy as one having control over personal information, and leverages the criticisms toward control‐based privacy and its foundation in individual autonomy, to introduce the concept of relational autonomy from the perspectives of feminist theory and Confucianism. It concludes by discussing the implications for conceptualizing privacy from these two foundations. The paper contributes to privacy research in that it provides an initial suggestion of how the conception of privacy might be characterized by the Western and Eastern philosophical traditions; it explicitly relates the conception of privacy to the conception of the person, and it deliberately phrases the discussion within an intercultural environment.

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Privacy and Autonomy: On Some Misconceptions Concerning the Political Dimensions of Privacy

Cited by 23 publications

References 32 publications

Data Fusion Challenges Privacy: What Can Privacy Regulation Do?

Data Fusion Challenges Privacy: What Can Privacy Regulation Do?

Privacy in Public: A Democratic Defense

Relational privacy: Where the East and the West could meet

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