WHAT PRIVACY IS FOR

Privacy has an image problem. Over and over again, regardless of the forum in which it is debated, it is cast as old-fashioned at best and downright harmful at worst - antiprogressive, overly costly, and inimical to the welfare of the body politic. Privacy advocates resist this framing but seem unab...

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Published in:Harvard law review 2013-05, Vol.126 (7), p.1904-1933
Main Author: Cohen, Julie E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ADVOCACY
Analysis
Big data
Commercial regulation
Debates and debating
Economic regulation
Entrepreneurship
Governance
Influence
Information technology
Law and legislation
Liberalism
NATIONAL SECURITY
Politics and government
PRIVACY
Privacy rights
Privacy, Right of
Subjectivity
Surveillance
SYMPOSIUM: PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY
Technological innovation
U.S. states
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Summary:Privacy has an image problem. Over and over again, regardless of the forum in which it is debated, it is cast as old-fashioned at best and downright harmful at worst - antiprogressive, overly costly, and inimical to the welfare of the body politic. Privacy advocates resist this framing but seem unable either to displace it or to articulate a comparably urgent description of privacy's importance. No single meme or formulation of privacy's purpose has emerged around which privacy advocacy might coalesce. Pleas to "balance" the harms of privacy invasion against the asserted gains lack visceral force.
ISSN:0017-811X
2161-976X