PRIVACY PUBLICATIONS
Mrs. Aremac and the Camera: A Response to Ryberg (pdf)
Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2008
Privacy Rights and Democracy: A Contradiction in Terms? (pdf)
Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2006
Feminism, Democracy and the Right to Privacy (pdf)
Minerva, Vol. 9, Nov. 2005
Must Privacy and Equality Conflict? A Philosophical Examination of Some Legal Evidence (pdf)
Social Research: An International Quarterly of the Social Sciences, Vol. 67, No. 4, Winter 2000
WORK IN PROGRESS
On Privacy (book under contract)
Routledge, Thinking in Action Series, to appear in 2011
This book shows that we can make reasoned judgements about the value of privacy even though there are no necessary and sufficient conditions for distinguishing privacy from liberty, equality, security or property. It explains why people have strong, though not absolute, rights over personal information, and draws out the significance of these claims for voting, for the practice of ‘outing’, and for the publication of true information by journalists and biographers. It argues that people’s claims to form families do not depend on the intrinsic worth of family life, nor on the utility of families for social policy, but on a democratic conception of the powers and responsibilities of citizens, which entitle people to take personal, as well as political responsibility for the lives of others. Finally, it argues that privacy rights cannot be reduced to property rights, although the differences between people’s claims to privacy and to ownership and control over property are less sharp than egalitarian liberals sometimes believe. This makes it important to distinguish the rights and responsibilities of workers from those of the owners and managers of firms, and to distinguish the claims of the small family firm from those of large corporations.
See also Publisher's web site for a synopsis.
Privacy and the Publication of True Facts (article)
An investigation of the privacy interests, if any, people might have in true but embarrassing, painful and dangerous facts about themselves.
Is Privacy Property in Disguise? (article)
A discussion of Judith Thomson’s claims that privacy rights are just an arbitrary mishmash of rights to privacy, property and bodily integrity