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The article presents an economic model of privacy. While I think that is important (and part of the argument for the indieweb - https://indieweb.org/ https://in
by pauloppenheim 8y ago
The article presents an economic model of privacy. While I think that is important (and part of the argument for the indieweb - https://indieweb.org/ https://indieweb.org/ ) there are more arguments to be made about privacy, including not only the individual, but also collective harms that the violation of privacy can impact. That argument is challenging to make, because harm changes depending not only on the individual or group and their reason to need privacy, but also on the type of information gathered, and the possible uses of it, which change over time. That kind of shape-shifting argument is challenging to get across, so I can appreciate something simpler. However, when I hear the framing of this as "the problem" I feel nervous, because I hear that as reducing consideration of other possibilities.