My work on informational privacy and surveillance centers around the idea of a political account of the value of communications privacy. In contrast to individualist negative-right justifications of privacy, I think that the most sustainable defense of privacy as a value must refer to the contribution of unsurveilled communications to democratic self-determination.
The Philosophy of Informational Privacy
Publications
Privacy in Public. A Democratic Defense
Traditional arguments for privacy in public suggest that intentionally public activities, such as political speech, do not deserve …
Privatheitsrechte und politische Öffentlichkeit
Wie lässt sich der Bereich des Privaten heute genau beschreiben? Welchen Wert besitzt Privatheit in digitalisierten Gesellschaften für …
Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the Public Sphere
Recent disclosures suggest that many governments apply indiscriminate mass surveillance technologies that allow them to capture and …
