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An Economist BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR As the data economy grows in
power, Carissa Veliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech
and governments, why that matters and what we can do about it. The
moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away your
data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of
organisations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you
slept, and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your
'suggested friends' on Facebook, you continually compromise your
privacy. Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech
companies are harvesting your information, your location, your
likes, your habits, and sharing it amongst themselves. They're not
just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you.
Even when you've explicitly asked them not to. And it's not just
you. It's all your contacts too. Digital technology is stealing our
personal data and with it our power to make free choices. To
reclaim that power and democracy, we must protect our privacy. What
can we do? So much is at stake. Our phones, our TVs, even our
washing machines are spies in our own homes. We need new
regulation. We need to pressure policy-makers for red lines on the
data economy. And we need to stop sharing and to adopt
privacy-friendly alternatives to Google, Facebook and other online
platforms. Short, terrifying, practical: Privacy is Power
highlights the implications of our laid-back attitude to data and
sets out how we can take back control. If you liked The Age of
Surveillance Capitalism, you'll love Privacy is Power because it
provides a philosophical perspective on the politics of privacy,
and it offers a very practical outlook, both for policymakers and
ordinary citizens.
"A Meteor of Intelligent Substance" "Something was Missing in our
Culture, and Here It Is" "Invaluable" "Liberties is THE place to
be. Change starts in the mind." Liberties, a journal of Culture and
Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural
and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features
serious, independent, stylish, and controversial essays by
significant writers and leaders throughout the world; new poetry;
and, introduces the next generation of writers and voices to
inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of
today's culture and politics. In this issue of Liberties: Cass R.
Sunstein - The Supreme Court Gone Wrong; Carissa Veliz -
Digitization is Surveillance; Ekaterina Pravilova - The Autocrat's
War; Richard Taruskin - What is Bad Taste; Jonathan Zimmerman -
Memoirs of a White Savior; Richard Wolin - The Cult of Carl
Schmitt; Mark Polizzotti - Surrealism and Cancellation; Andrew
Butterfield - Dante During Covid; Scott Spillman - The Strange
History of the Slave Songs; Leora Batnitzky - The Sacrifice of
Edith Stein; Helen Vendler - Sylvia Plath on Motherhood; Jared
Marcel Pollen - Was Havel Right?; Celeste Marcus - The Curse of the
Radical Israeli Right; Leon Wieseltier - The Future of Nature; and
new poems by Claire Malroux, Marissa Grunes, Paula Bohince.
Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of
power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they need
community. Our need for socialization brings with it risks and
burdens which in turn give rise to the need for spaces and time
away from others. To impose surveillance upon someone is an act of
domination. The foundations of democracy quiver under surveillance.
Given how important privacy is for individual and collective
wellbeing, it is striking that it has not enjoyed a more central
place in philosophy. The philosophical literature on privacy and
surveillance is still very limited compared to that on justice,
autonomy, or equality-and yet the former plays a role in protecting
all three values. Perhaps philosophers haven't attended much to
privacy because for most of the past two centuries there have been
strong enough privacy norms in place and not enough invasive
technologies. Privacy worked for most people most of the time,
which made thinking about it unnecessary. It's when things stop
working that the philosopher's attention is most easily caught-the
owl of Minerva spreading its wings only with impending dusk. With
the spread of machine learning, a kind of AI that often uses vast
amounts of personal data, and a whole industry dedicated to the
trade of personal data becoming one of the most popular business
models of the 21st century, it's time for philosophy to look more
closely at privacy. This book is intended to contribute to a better
understanding of privacy from a philosophical point of view-what it
is, what is at stake in its loss, and how it relates to other
rights and values. The five parts that compose this book respond to
five basic questions about privacy: Where does privacy come from?
What is privacy? Why does privacy matter? What should we do about
privacy? Where are we now?
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