In Defense of Privacy: The Concept and the Regime
In Defense of Privacy: The Concept and the Regime
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捍卫隐私：概念和制度
DOI：
10.24908/ss.v8i4.4184
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发表时间：
2011
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2
通讯作者：
Colin J. Bennett
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作者：
Colin J. Bennett
最近，在监视研究界，对“隐私保护”的概念和制度提出一些非常严厉的批评已成为时尚。 “隐私”及其所包含的一切被认为过于狭隘，过于基于主观性的自由假设，过于牵涉基于权利的理论和论述，对监视的社会分类和歧视方面不够敏感，过于卷入关于“入侵”和“侵入”的空间隐喻。 作为一个概念，以及作为一种方式来框定在“监视社会”内遇到的各种社会和政治挑战，它是不够的。 这些批评很重要，在某种程度上，已经将学术研究置于一个新的，令人兴奋的和更广泛的轨道上，而不是隐私学者提供的轨道。然而，仔细研究，这些批评往往是基于对隐私问题的当代框架，以及对问题的治理的一些错误的假设。 隐私作为一种概念、制度、一套政策工具，以及作为一种构建公民社会行动主义的方式，表现出非凡的弹性。监视学者必须学会与之共存。
It has recently become fashionable within the surveillance studies community to subject the concept and regime of “privacy protection” to some very rigorous criticism. “Privacy” and all that it entails is argued to be too narrow, too based on liberal assumptions of subjectivity, too implicated in rights-based theory and discourse, insufficiently sensitive to the social sorting and discriminatory aspects of surveillance, and overly embroiled in spatial metaphors about “invasion” and “intrusion.” As a concept, and as a way to frame the various social and political challenges encountered within “surveillance societies,” it is inadequate. These critiques are important, and to some extent, have set scholarly inquiry on a new, exciting and broader, trajectory than that offered by privacy scholars. On closer examination, however, these critiques are often based on some faulty assumptions about the contemporary framing of the privacy issue, and about the governance of the issue. Privacy, as a concept, regime, a set of policy instruments, and as a way to frame civil society activism, shows an extraordinary resilience. Surveillance scholars must learn to live with it.