This book explores the Janus-faced features of privacy, and looks
at their implications for the control of personal information, for
sexual and reproductive freedom, and for democratic politics. It
asks what, if anything, is wrong with asking women to get licenses
in order to have children, given that pregnancy and childbirth can
seriously damage your health. It considers whether employers should
be able to monitor the friendships and financial affairs of
employees, and whether we are entitled to know whenever someone
rich, famous or powerful has cancer, or an adulterous affair. It
considers whether we are entitled to privacy in public and, if so,
what this might mean for the use of CCTV cameras, the treatment of
the homeless and the provision of public facilities such as parks,
libraries and lavatories. Above all, the book seeks to understand
whether and, if so, why privacy is valuable in a democratic
society, and what implications privacy has for the ways we see and
treat each other. The ideas about privacy we have inherited from
the past are marked by beliefs about what is desirable, realistic
and possible which predate democratic government and, in some
cases, predate constitutional government as well. Hence, this book
argues, although privacy is an important democratic value, we can
only realise that value if we use democratic ideas about the
freedom, equality, security and rights of individuals to guide our
understanding of privacy.
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