Privacy

As an ever-increasing amount of our personal data is collected, analyzed, and distributed by tech companies, we need to think carefully about what we might be losing when we give up our privacy. Privacy presents an expertly curated selection of both classic and contemporary philosophical literature on privacy, offering rich insights into the nature of privacy and the potential consequences of its loss. Exploring privacy in contexts such as governance, law, and ethics, this incisive compendium of philosophical literature explores the theories, issues, debates, and applications of the philosophical study of privacy and its role in the modern world. The anthology presents essays by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Thomas Scanlon, W. A. Parent, Ruth Gavison, Carissa Véliz, Thomas Nagel, and other emerging voices and established thinkers. Topics include the liberal value of privacy, privacy in social media, privacy rights and public information, and differing views about privacy, its importance, and its violation. Privacy is a must-read anthology for philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on digital and applied ethics, philosophy, media studies, communications, computer science, engineering, and sociology.