PRIVACY PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES | BOOKS | PHD THESIS | WORK IN PROGRESS | TALKS
Neuroscience v. Democracy? A Democratic Perspective (pdf)
I Know What You Are Thinking: Brain Imaging and Mental Privacy, eds. Sarah J. L. Edwards, Sarah Richmond and Geraint Rees, Oxford University Press, 2011 (forthcoming)
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
On Privacy
Routledge, Thinking in Action Series, November 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.
A Democratic Conception of Privacy
PhD Thesis, MIT, June 1997
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
Privacy and Democracy
Invited Speaker - The AnCO Seminar, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
February 2012
Vie Privée, Liberté d'Expression et les Medias
Invited Speaker - University of Fribourg, Switzerland
December 2011
Are Privacy Rights Just Property Rights in Disguise? A Critique of Judith Jarvis Thomson on Privacy
Invited Speaker - Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich, Switzerland
October 26, 2011
Honte et Droit à la Vie Privée
Invited Speaker - University of Grenoble, France
October 13-14, 2011
L'Ethique et la Psychanalyse: La Question de la Honte - Deuxième Rencontres Pluridisciplinaires Sur L'Ethique et L'Ethique Appliquée
Privacy, Property and Democracy
Invited Speaker - University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
June 9, 2011
Workshop on "Rawls and Property-Owning Democracy"
Privacy, "Outing" and the Media
Invited Speaker - University of Leeds, UK
June 17-19, 2011
Conference on Privacy and Confidentiality