Personal information as communicative acts

The paper extends previous accounts of informational privacy as a contextual notion. Where previous accounts have focused on interpretations of the privacy context itself as being contextual and open for negotiation and interpretation, this paper extends those analyses and shows that personal inform...

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Published in:Ethics and information technology 2016-03, Vol.18 (1), p.51-57
Main Author: Mai, Jens-Erik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer Science
Constraining
Control
Ethics
Information technology
Innovation/Technology Management
Library Science
Management of Computing and Information Systems
Materials information
Negotiations
Original Paper
Personal information
Philosophy
Privacy
Studies
Surveillance
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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Summary:The paper extends previous accounts of informational privacy as a contextual notion. Where previous accounts have focused on interpretations of the privacy context itself as being contextual and open for negotiation and interpretation, this paper extends those analyses and shows that personal information itself is in fact best understood as contextual and situational—and as such open for interpretation. The paper reviews the notion of information as it has been applied in informational privacy and philosophy of information, and suggests that personal information ought to be regarded as communicative acts. The paper suggests a reconceptualization of informational privacy from having its focus on controlling, limiting, and restricting access to material carriers of information to a focus on a regulation of the use, analysis, and interpretation of personal information.
ISSN:1388-1957
1572-8439
DOI:10.1007/s10676-016-9390-4