The seven veils of privacy
How our debates about privacy conceal its nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23534643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kieron O’hara (0000-0002-9051-4456), Kieron O'Hara |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Seven Veils of Privacy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.7765/9781526163042 |
| OpenAlex | W4384822660 |
| ISBN | 9781526163042 |
| Open Library | OL46573962M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Privacy is one of the most contested concepts of our time. This book sets out a rigorous and comprehensive framework for understanding debates about privacy and our rights to it. Much of the conflict around privacy comes from a failure to recognise divergent perspectives. Some people argue about human rights, some about social conventions, others about individual preferences and still others about information and data processing. As a result, ‘privacy’ has become the focus of competing definitions, leading some to denounce the ‘disarray’ in the field. But as this book shows, disagreements about the role and value of privacy obscure a large amount of agreement on the topic. Privacy is not a technical term of law, cybersecurity or sociology, but a word in common use that adequately expresses a few simple and related ideas.
CLARITY · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Human rights · Information privacy · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Pessimism · Political science · Politics · Privacy by Design · Privacy policy · Sociology · The Right to Privacy · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |