Table Of ContentAmintaphil: The Philosophical Foundations of Law And Justice
Series Editors: Mortimer Sellers · Ann E. Cudd
Ann E. Cudd
Mark C. Navin Editors
Core
Concepts and
Contemporary
Issues in Privacy
AMINTAPHIL
The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice
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MortimerSellers,UniversityofBaltimore
AnnE.Cudd,BostonUniversity
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LeslieP.Francis,UniversityofUtah
CarolGould,HunterCollege
StevenP.Lee,HobartandWilliamSmithColleges
RexMartin,UniversityofKansasandUniversityofCardiff
LarryMay,WashingtonUniversityinSt.Louis
ChristineT.Sistare,MuhlenbergCollege
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Ann E. Cudd Mark C. Navin
Editors
Core Concepts
and Contemporary Issues
in Privacy
Editors
AnnE.Cudd MarkC.Navin
CollegeofArts&Sciences, DepartmentofPhilosophy
DepartmentofPhilosophy OaklandUniversity
BostonUniversity Rochester,Michigan,USA
Boston,Massachusetts,USA
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Acknowledgments
Wewouldliketothank allthecontributorstothevolumefortheirfineessays.We
areespeciallygratefultoStevenLeeandAlistairMacleodfortheircommentsonthe
introductory chapter. We also want to thank Win-Chiat Lee, Wake Forest Univer-
sity, and the Thomas Jack Lynch Fund for support of the 2016 AMINTAPHIL
Conference.Mostofall,wewanttothankSeenaEftekhariforhisfineworkediting
andpreparingthemanuscript.
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Contents
Introduction:ConceptualizingPrivacyHarmsandValues. . . . . . . . . . . 1
AnnE.CuddandMarkC.Navin
PartI Privacy:CoreConcepts
TheConceptualCoherenceofPrivacyAsDevelopedinLaw. . . . . . . . . 17
JudithWagnerDeCew
Privacy:Concept,Value,Right?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
AlistairM.Macleod
TheNatureandValueofPrivacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
StevenP.Lee
PrivacyandResponsibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
ManeHajdin
PartII PersonalInformationPrivacy
Information,Privacy,andFalseLight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
PierreLeMorvan
TheUnrelentingDarknessofFalseLight:ASuiGenerisTort. . . . . . . . 91
JonathanSchonsheck
Privacy,PublicSpace,andPersonalInformation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
RichardT.DeGeorge
PrivacyandReligiousExemptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
MarkC.Navin
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PartIII PrivacyandTechnology
TheNeedforPrivacyTortsinanEraofUbiquitousDisclosure
andSurveillance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
PatrickHubbard
TheChance“toMeltintotheShadowsofObscurity”:
Developinga“RighttobeForgotten”intheUnitedStates. . . . . . . . . . . 159
PatrickO’Callaghan
Parents,Privacy,andFacebook:LegalandSocialResponses
totheProblemof“Over-Sharing”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
RenéeN.Souris
DigitizingPrivacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
WadeL.Robison
PartIV PrivacyinDifferentContexts:Work,Sex,Family,
andCrime
Privacy,Employment,andDignity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
JohnG.FrancisandLeslieP.Francis
PrivacyandOuting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
GordonA.Babst
Marriage:PublicInstitutionorPrivateContract. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
EmilyR.Gill
CriminalActs,ReasonableExpectationofPrivacy,
andthePrivate/PublicSplit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Win-chiatLee
About the Editors
Ann E. Cudd is Dean of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at Boston
University, and was formerly University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at
theUniversityofKansas.Shehaspublishedresearchonsocialandpoliticalphilos-
ophy,philosophyofeconomics,andfeministtheory.HerbooksincludeAnalyzing
Oppression (Oxford 2006) and Capitalism For and Against: A feminist debate
(Cambridge 2011), which she co-authored with Nancy Holmstrom, as well as
three previous co-edited volumes in this series of Amintaphil volumes. She is
currentlyVicePresidentofAMINTAPHIL.
Mark C. Navin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oakland University
(Rochester, MI). He has published primarily in applied ethics and political
philosophy, with a recent focus on bioethics and public health ethics. His book,
ValuesandVaccineRefusal,waspublishedbyRoutledgein2015.
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Introduction: Conceptualizing Privacy
Harms and Values
AnnE.CuddandMarkC.Navin
Abstract Privacy is widely valued, especially in individualistic cultures, because
peoplewanttocontrolaccesstotheirbodiesandtoinformationabouttheirpersonal
choices. Privacy can promote a variety of goods. It can protect intimacy among
friends and colleagues and create trusting relations of tolerance among strangers.
Privacy can promote dignity, since it can be embarrassing to disclose secret or
unconsidered thoughts or opinions, or to reveal one’s naked body or other private
spaces.Privacycanalsocontributetoourindividuality,self-respect,andautonomy;
and privacy can protect us from a wide array of emotional or psychological harms
associatedwithunwantedpublicity.Privacycanalsofurtherimportantpoliticaland
legalgoods,includingpropertyrights,fraudprevention,andnon-discrimination.
Privacyiswidelyvalued,especiallyinindividualisticcultures,becausepeoplewant
to control access to their bodies and to information about their personal choices.
Privacycanpromoteavarietyofgoods. Itcanprotectintimacyamong friends and
colleagues and create trusting relations of tolerance among strangers. Privacy can
promote dignity, since it can be embarrassing to disclose secret or unconsidered
thoughtsoropinions,ortorevealone’snakedbodyorotherprivatespaces.Privacy
canalsocontributetoourindividuality,self-respect,andautonomy;andprivacycan
protect us from a wide array of emotional or psychological harms associated with
unwanted publicity. Privacy can also further important political and legal goods,
includingpropertyrights,fraudprevention,andnon-discrimination.
Privacy can also be disvalued. It can facilitate crime and oppression of the
vulnerable,whilesecretcommunicationsamonggangsandterroristscanjeopardize
safety.Privacyisthereforenotanabsolutegood.Instead,ifwewanttouncoverthe
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BostonUniversity,Boston,MA,USA
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M.C.Navin
OaklandUniversity,Rochester,MI,USA
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