Open AccessPrivacy is not the Antidote to Surveillance.
Author(s) -
Felix Stalder
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
surveillance and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.781
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1477-7487
DOI - 10.24908/ss.v1i1.3397
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , internet privacy , accountability , computer security , electronic communication , information privacy , business , antidote , computer science , political science , law , paleontology , biology , chemistry , organic chemistry , toxicity
The standard reaction to the problem of surveillance is to demand the protection of privacy. This article, however, argues that the conventional notion of privacy, based, as it is, on the separation of the individual from their environment, is no longer useful in the context of ubiquitous electronic communication. Rather than defending ever shrinking areas of privacy, we should refocus our efforts and demand accountability from those design and employ the new communication systems.