Is privacy relative?

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 534-546

  Räikkä, Juha ^a  

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EID: 77949658990     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2008.00441.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Restricted access definitions of privacy are defended by Anita L. Allen and many others. See Allen, Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women in a Free Society (Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988), 11-34;
2. Allen, "Privacy", in The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics, ed. H. La Follette (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 485-513.
3. Marco Antonio Goncalves, "A Woman between Two Men and a Man between Two Woman: The Production of Jealousy and the Predation of Sociality among the Paresi Indians of Mato Grosso", in The Anthropology of Love and Anger, ed. Joanna Overing and Alan Passes (London: Routledge, 2001), 260-80.
4. Richard T. De George, The Ethics of Information Technology and Business (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003), 40.
5. Ruth Gavison, among others, has opposed the view that smoking in public places is a privacy-limiting act. See her "Privacy and the Limits of Law", Yale Law Journal 89(1980):421-71, esp. 436.
6. See for example, Vincent J. Samar, The Right to Privacy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991);
7. Julia C. Inness, Privacy, Intimacy and Isolation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992);
8. Raymond Wacks, Privacy and Press Freedom (London: Blackstone Press, 1995);
9. Judith Wagner De Cew, In Pursuit of Privacy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997);
10. Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg, eds., Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997);
11. David Brin, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1998);
12. Amitai Etzioni, The Limits of Privacy (Oxford: Basic Books, 1999).
13. For a similar view, see for example, Ruth Macklin, Against Relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
14. Dorothy Lee, Freedom and Culture (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1987), 30-31.
15. Alan Westin has argued that Lee's example does not show that there are cultures that do not value privacy at all. See his "The Origins of Modern Claims to Privacy", in Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: An Anthology, ed. F. D. Schoeman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 56-74, esp. 59-60. I think the purpose of Lee's example was different.
16. Lee, Freedom and Culture, 31.
17. See, for example, Jean M. Langford, "Traces of Folk Medicine in Jaunpur", Cultural Anthropology 18(2003):271-303;
18. Marlene Mulder and Harvey Krahn, "Individual- and Community-Level Determinants of Support for Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Canada", The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 42(2005):421-44;
19. Alexia Bloch, "Longing for the Kollective", Cultural Anthropology 20(2005):534-69;
20. Paula C. Almeida Remoaldo and Elódia E. Lopes Canteiro, "Beliefs and Traditions Related to a Child's First Year of Life", Anthropology & Medicine 13(2006):253-64;
21. Rivke Jaffe, "Space, Ethnicity and Capital in Reterritorialised Puerto Rican Neighbourhoods", Social Anthropology 14(2006):391-97;
22. Lynne Phillips, "Food and Globalization", Annual Review of Anthropology 35(2006):37-57;
23. Martin Nakata, "Australian Indigenous Studies: A Question of Discipline", The Australian Journal of Anthropology 17(2006):265-75;
24. Brett S. Mann and Chrystal Jaye", 'Are We One Body?': Body Boundaries in Telesomatic Experiences", Anthropology & Medicine 14(2007):183-95.
25. Countries with national data protection laws are introduced in James Michael, Privacy and Human Rights (Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth, 1994), 53-133.
26. Judith De Cew, "Privacy", in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Last substantive content change in 2002.) http://plato.stanford. edu/entries/privacy/.
27. Judith Jarvis Thomson, "The Right to Privacy", Philosophy and Public Affairs 4(1975):295-314.
28. Thomas Scanlon, "Thomson on Privacy", Philosophy and Public Affairs 4(1975):315-22;
29. Inness, Privacy, Intimacy and Isolation, 30-40.
30. Cf. Ferninand Schoeman, "Privacy: Philosophical Dimensions of the Literature", in Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: An Anthology, ed. F. D. Schoeman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 1-33, esp. 6-7.
31. Wolfgang Schirmacher, "Privacy as an Ethical Problem in the Computer Society", in Philosophy and Technology II, ed. C. Mitcham and A. Huning (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1986), 257-68, esp. 264.
32. In his "Privacy, Morality, and the Law", W. A. Parent argues that the "definite connection between harm and the invasion of privacy explains why we place value on not having undocumented personal information about ourselves widely known", Philosophy & Public Affairs 12(1983):269-88, esp. 276.
33. See for example, Ann Christy Elliot, "Health Care Ethics: Cultural Relativity of Autonomy", Journal of Transcultural Nursing 12(2001):326-30.
34. Hyman Gross, "Privacy and Autonomy", Nomos 13(1971):169-80, esp. 173;
35. James Rachels, "Why Is Privacy Important?" in Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: An Anthology, ed. F. D. Schoeman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 290-99, esp. 295; Gavison 1980.
36. For a discussion, see for example, Richard A. Wasserstrom, "Privacy: Some Arguments and Assumptions", in Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: An Anthology, ed. F. D. Schoeman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 317-32, esp. 331;
37. Helen Nissenbaum, "Protecting Privacy in an Information Age", Law and Philosophy 17(1998), 559-96, esp. 581-85.
38. See for example, Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, A History of Private Life II, trans. A. Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988);
39. Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby, A History of Private Life V, trans. A. Goldhammer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).