Privacy and the computer: why we need privacy in the information society
Privacy and the computer: why we need privacy in the information society
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隐私和计算机：为什么我们在信息社会中需要隐私
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1997
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Lucas D. Introna
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Lucas D. Introna
三十多年来，关于隐私概念的广泛而重要的哲学辩论一直在进行，因此，令人困惑的是，目前大多数关于信息技术和隐私的作者都认为所有人都直觉地知道为什么隐私是重要的。这一假设允许隐私被视为一种自由的、有价值的东西：在面对其他真正重要的事情时，比如国家安全、司法公正以及国家和公司的有效管理，隐私很容易被抛弃。在这篇论文中，我想论证的是，隐私的概念中有一些基本的东西，由于这个概念的深刻性，它值得采取特别的保护措施和公开的支持。我还认为，透明度的概念（如瓦瑟斯特罗姆所倡导的）是一个没有隐私的无用概念，问责制和透明度只有在隐私的概念中才有意义。从哲学和法律的文献中，我将讨论和论证隐私作为社会关系中人类自主性的基本背景和基础的价值。在本文的结论中，我将讨论隐私这一概念对信息社会的影响，特别是对信息系统的学科。
For more than thirty years an extensive and significant philosophical debate about the notion of privacy has been going on. Therefore it seems puzzling that most current authors on information technology and privacy assume that all individuals intuitively know why privacy is important. This assumption allows privacy to be seen as a liberal nice to have value: something that can easily be discarded in the face of other really important matters like national security, the doing of justice and the effective administration of the state and the corporation. In this paper I want to argue that there is something fundamental in the notion of privacy and that due to the profoundness of the notion it merits extraordinary measures of protection and overt support. I will also argue that the notion of transparency (as advocated by Wasserstrom) is a useless concept without privacy and that accountability and transparency can only be meaningful if encapsulated in the concept of privacy. From philosophical and legal literature I will discuss and argue the value of privacy as the essential context and foundation of human autonomy in social relationships. In the conclusion of the paper I will discuss implications of this notion of privacy for the information society in general, and for the discipline of information systems in particular.