[1]Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy? | The New Yorker:

    Possibly the discussion is using the wrong vocabulary. "Privacy" is
    an odd name for the good that is being threatened by commercial
    exploitation and state surveillance. Privacy implies "It's nobody's
    business," and that is not really what Roe v. Wade is about, or what
    the E.U. regulations are about, or even what Katz and Carpenter are
    about. The real issue is the one that Pollak and Martin, in their
    suit against the District of Columbia in the Muzak case, said it
    was: liberty. This means the freedom to choose what to do with your
    body, or who can see your personal information, or who can monitor
    your movements and record your calls-who gets to surveil your life
    and on what grounds.

  I like changing the argument to liberty. There's a ton of Founding
  Fathers materials on the topic.

  Of course, in my professional capacity there's a different argument to
  make but one that still applies to the individual.

    As we are learning, the danger of data collection by online
    companies is not that they will use it to try to sell you stuff. The
    danger is that that information can so easily fall into the hands of
    parties whose motives are much less benign.
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  My original entry is here: [2]Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy? |
  The New Yorker. It posted Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:57:36 +0000.
  Filed under: business, privacy,

References

  1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/why-do-we-care-so-much-about-privacy
  2. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1229

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