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Holistic and Pragmatic Approaches to Privacy Theorization
My thinking is that we should take a page from Kant’ book and genuinely inquire whether or not a parsimonious understanding of ‘privacy’ is actually what we want – do we want to focus on the pragmatic ‘now’ – or should we instead pursue nuanced and detailed accounts of privacy that are fluid enough to modulate themselves with changes in normative attitudes and technological innovations and that can simultaneously offer policy alternatives. Such an approach wouldn’t necessarily discount current pragmatic approaches to or understandings of privacy-related problems, but could innovate well beyond the limited conceptualizations lying behind some of the current pragmatic approaches. Continue reading
Canadian Privacy Advocates and Their Privacy Commissioners
What isn’t good, is that the listserv is damnably hard to find – it’s kept very private, and is effectively just word of mouth. This leaves the public out of the discussion, and leaves advocates and commissioners in a bubble that the public should at least be able to find via Google. This is a serious problem, and (to my mind) speaks of a not bizarre, and a potentially problematic, relationship between advocates and officials. Continue reading
Draft – Who Gives a ‘Tweet’ About Privacy?
This paper uses academic privacy literature to examine Twitter and the notion of reasonable expectations of privacy in public, and is written with the intent that it can help nuance privacy discussions concerning the discourse occuring on Twitter. Continue reading
Thoughts: P2P and Complicity in Filesharing
I think about peer to peer (P2P) filesharing on a reasonably regular basis, for a variety of reasons (digital surveillance, copyright analysis and infringement, legal cases, value in efficiently mobilizing data, etc.). Something that always nags at me is the … Continue reading
