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14 - Privatizing Private Data

from Part III - Outcome-Based Theories: On the Virtues and Vices of Public Provision as a Means to Promote Efficiency and Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2021

Avihay Dorfman
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Alon Harel
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Privacy seems to belong to the past. The dating website OkCupid asks its users whether they occasionally use illegal drugs, selling that information in real time to marketers. Commercial data brokers hold thousands of data points about individuals. The problem concerns not only apps and websites but also the “Internet of Things” (IoT) that increasingly surrounds us. In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff cites the example of a bed that uses “smart technology” to capture data on “heart rate, breathing and movement,” allegedly to improve the quality of sleep.

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Print publication year: 2021

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