Social Dimensions of Privacy Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Written by a select international group of leading privacy scholars, Social Dimensions of Privacy endorses and develops an innovative approach to privacy. By debating topical privacy cases in their specific research areas, the contributors explore the new privacy-sensitive areas: legal scholars and political theorists discuss the European and American approaches to privacy regulation; sociologists explore new forms of surveillance and privacy on social network sites; and philosophers revisit feminist critiques of privacy, discuss markets in personal data, issues of privacy in health care and democratic politics. The broad interdisciplinary character of the volume will be of interest to readers from a variety of scientific disciplines who are concerned with privacy and data protection issues.

Introduction Dorota Mokrosinska and Beate Roessler; Part I. The Social Dimensions of Privacy: 1. Privacy: the longue durée James Rule; 2. Coming to terms: the kaleidoscope of privacy and surveillance Gary T. Marx; 3. Privacy and the common good: revisited Priscilla M. Regan; 4. The meaning and value of privacy Daniel J. Solove; Part II. Privacy: Practical Controversies: 5. The feminist critique of privacy - past arguments and new social understandings Judith Wagner DeCew; 6. Privacy in the family Bryce Clayton Newell, Cheryl Metoyer and Adam D. Moore; 7. How to do things with personal big biodata Koen Bruynseels and Jeroen van den Hoven; 8. Should personal data be a tradable good? On the moral limits of markets in privacy Beate Roessler; 9. Privacy, democracy, and freedom of expression Annabelle Lever; 10. How much privacy for public officials? Dorota Mokrosinska; 11. Privacy, surveillance and the democratic potential of the social web Colin J. Bennett, Adam Molnar and Christopher Parsons; Part III. Issues in Privacy Regulation: 12. The social value of privacy, the value of privacy to society and human rights discourse Kirsty Hughes; 13. Privacy, sociality, and the failure of regulation: lessons learned from young Canadians' online experiences Valerie Steeves; 14. Compliance-limited health privacy laws Anita L. Allen; 15. Respect for context as a benchmark for privacy online: what it is and isn't Helen Nissenbaum; 16. Privacy, technology, and regulation: why one size is unlikely to fit all Andreas Busch; 17. The value of privacy federalism Paul M. Schwartz.

Beate Roessler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is co-director of the Philosophy and Public Affairs research programme.
Dorota Mokrosinska is a Research Fellow in Political Theory at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where she is conducting research on the place of privacy in democratic politics.