Obscurity and Privacy
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2016
Editor(s)
Joseph C. Pitt & Ashley Shew
ISBN
9780415842969
Publisher
Routledge
Language
en-US
Abstract
‘Obscurity’ is a distinctive concept in the privacy literature that has recently been gaining attention due to increasing frustration with the theoretical and practical limits of traditional privacy theory. Obscurity identifies some of the fundamental ways information can be obtained or kept out of reach, correctly interpreted or misunderstood. Appeals to obscurity can generate explanatory power, clarifying how advances in the sciences of data collection and analysis, innovation in domains related to information and communication technology, and changes to social norms can alter the privacy landscape and give rise to three core problems: 1) new breaches of etiquette, 2) new privacy interests, and 3) new privacy harms.
Recommended Citation
Evan Selinger & Woodrow Hartzog,
Obscurity and Privacy
,
in
Spaces for the Future: A Companion to Philosophy of Technology
(Joseph C. Pitt & Ashley Shew ed.,
2016).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3099
