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A Taxonomy of privacy

A Taxonomy of privacy. Privacy. A very slippery, abstract concept In your own words, give me a definition of privacy. Write this in your journal. Keizer’s definition. “A creaturely resistance to being used (or exploited) against one’s will” (Keizer 20).

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A Taxonomy of privacy

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  1. A Taxonomy of privacy

  2. Privacy • A very slippery, abstract concept • In your own words, give me a definition of privacy. Write this in your journal.

  3. Keizer’s definition • “A creaturely resistance to being used (or exploited) against one’s will” (Keizer 20). • What is he saying? Take a minute and put this definition into your own words. • What does this mean? What question would you ask Keizer about his definition? Write this question down. • Now, let’s work toward our own definition, but first let us clarify Keizer’s definition.

  4. Keizer offers two qualifications to clarify his definition: what are they? • First, how you are used doesn’t matter. The more intangible the use, the more likely we perceive the use as a breach as opposed to assault • -shortcuts at the doctor’s office, revenge, entertainment • Secondly, awareness of exploitation is irrelevant, but it hurts more if the victims do know. • What kind of examples can you think of? Do you agree or disagree with these?

  5. Privacy: a concept in disarray • Too complicated to be boiled down to a single essence • These attempts create overly broad and vague definitions. • Past definitions, including tort scholar William Prosser’s lacked several considerations. • Fourth Amendment law, constitutional right to information privacy, evidentiary privileges, dozens of federal privacy statutes, and hundreds of state statutes • Emergence of new technology

  6. Background of Solove’s definition • Solove works from a legal perspective • Focus: activities that create problems • Different, yet share many commonalities. • Concrete • Endeavors to guide the law toward a more coherent understanding of privacy and to serve as a framework for the future development of the field of privacy law.

  7. Daniel Solove’s Definition • Centered around the data subject • 1.) Information Collection • 2.) Information Processing • 3.) Information Dissemination • 4.) Invasions

  8. Information Collection • Surveillance • conveys “watching, listening to, or recording of an individual’s activities;” subject is not always aware • 1984, CCTV, wiretapping • Panopticon effect • Interrogation • conveys various forms of questioning or probing for information; subject is aware • Makes people uncomfortable by not answering • Impinge on freedom of association and belief, e.g. McCarthy, Middle Ages • BOTH involve involuntary collection; there is also voluntary collection.

  9. Information Processing • Use, storage, and manipulation of data that has been collected • Aggregation • conveys the combination of information about a person (Amazon.com) • Identification • conveys linking information to specific persons • Insecurity • conveys lack of due diligence protecting (stored) personal information from leaks and improper access • Secondary Use • conveys the re-use of information, without subject’s consent, for purposes different from the purpose for which it was originally collected • Exclusion • conveys not allowing the subject to know or influence how their information is being used.

  10. Information Dissemination • Reveal personal data or the threat of spreading infro • Breach of Confidentiality • conveys “breaking a promise to keep a person’s information confidential” • Disclosure • conveys revealing (truthful) information that “impacts the way others judge [the] character [of the person involved]” • Exposure • conveys revealing “another’s nudity, grief, or bodily functions” • Increased Accessibility • conveys “amplifying the accessibility of information”

  11. Information Dissemination (cont.) • Blackmail • conveys the threat to disclose personal information unless the blackmailers demands are met • Appropriation • conveys the use of the subject’s identity “to serve the aims and interests of another” • Distortion • conveys the dissemination of “false or misleading information about individuals”

  12. Invasions (Different from the others) • Don’t involve information • Intrusions • conveys acts that “disturb one’s tranquility or solitude” • Surveillance, interrogation • Decisional Interference • conveys “[governmental] incursion into the subject’s decisions regarding private affairs”

  13. Individual and Societal Harms • Physical Harms • Financial Losses and Property Harms • Reputational Harms • Emotional and Psychological Harms • Relationship Harms (think association) • Power Imbalances • Chilling Effects • Vulnerability Harms • lead to other harms, accumulate slowly like climate change

  14. Chapter 2 • What type of problematic activity is Keizer’s friend engaging in? • What type of problematic activity is related to the Tyler Clementi case? • What kind of harms are involved in each? • Are they different? Which one is worse?

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