Ubi dubium, ibi libertas
Where there is doubt, there is
freedom
Privacy on the internet: a liberal approach.
Or on the concepts of epistèmè and doxa
Epistèmè
Doxa
• Force
• Deprives
– Enforcement
• Knowledge
– Transparency
• Predictability
– Control
– Negative freedom: locational
privacy
• Uncertainty
– Opaqueness: Informational
privacy
• Unpredictable
– Freedom: Decisional privacy
Outline
• 1. State
– a. Internet
– b. Explain
– c. Opinion
• 2. Market
– a. Internet
– b. Explain
– c. Opinion
• 3. Social
– a. Internet
– b. Explain
– c. Opinion
(1) State
• 1(a) Internet
– Internet under the juridical order
– Transparency – monitoring
– Filtering - blocking
• 1(b) Explain
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Everything brought under the juridical order
Everything should be transparent
Prevention – ex ante regulation
Justice legitimizes the use of force
• 1(c) Opinion
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Personal opinion: Natural rights
Negative freedom: Fundamental rights
Opaqueness
Positive Freedom: Harm principle
(2) Market
• 2(a) Internet
– Personal data is the new currency
– Everything is tracked by cookies
– Group profiling
• 2(b) Explain
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Everything brought under market regulation
Information equality/transparancy
Standardization
Utility: rational order of the world
• 2(c) Opinion
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Personal opinion: system of perfect liberty
Negative freedom: Demand based
Opaqueness
Positive Freedom: Invisible hand
(3) Social
• 3(a) Internet
– Everything is personal
– Transparency is the norm
– Opinionative: Moral judgment
• 3(b) Explain
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Democratization
Informalization
Social control
Privatization of the good
• 3(c) Opinion
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Virtue is personal: difference anarchy
Negative freedom
Opaqueness
Decisional privacy
Epistèmè
- State: Justice
- Martket: Hapiness
- Social: Goodness
Doxa
• Force
Depriving
• Knowledge
Uncertainty
• Predictability
Unpredictable
Epistèmè
Doxa
State: justice
Martket: Hapiness
Social: Goodness
• Force
- State
- Market
- Social
- State domain
- Market domain
- Internet
- Social domain
• Knowledge
- Transparancy
- Monitoring/retention
- Transparancy
- Cookies
- Openness
- Transparancy
• Predictability
Depriving
- Control
- Filtering/blocking
- Control
- Group profiling
- Opinion/social control - Control
Uncertainty
- Opaqueness
Unpredictable
- Freedom