Privacy in Context

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1. bholdrOct 2020
   I recommend looking into Privacy as Contextual Integrity. Privacy is not about control. It's about appropriateness of information flows, not about private and public spaces.

   If you're interested please read Nissenbaum's book on Privacy in Context.

   https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=8862

   There is also an active community you can follow: https://twitter.com/privaci_way

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2. emotionalcodeOct 2014
   > here's the value of non rational thought and states of mind. This is plain in art, but generally derided everyone else because of the relationship to antirational arguments, insanity and other persona non grata. There's the always nebulous concept of personal, indescribable spiritual experience. There's an unavoidable wrestling with philosophical ideas about reality from Des Cartes' solipsism, to Socrates' Parable of the Cave even The Matrix.

   I am currently reading a book called "Privacy in Context" by Helen Nissenbaum. A portion of the book was pointed out to me,if I may quote.

   >> .."for even when we are uncertain whether or not we are being watched, we must act as if we are. When this happens, when we have internalized the gaze of the watchers and see ourselves through their eyes, we are acting according to their principles and not ones that are truly our own (Bentham 1995; Foucault 1995). But pan-optic effects might be even more insidious than this, leading to a diminishment in our capacity to formulate principles, plans, and desires with which we truly identify. According to this framing of the relationship between privacy and autonomy, it is not conceptual but causal for privacy is claimed to be an important aspect of an environment in which autonomy is likely to flourish, and its absence likely to undermine it."

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