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Privacy And Democracy In Cyberspace, Paul M. Schwartz
Privacy And Democracy In Cyberspace, Paul M. Schwartz
Vanderbilt Law Review
In this Article, Professor Schwartz depicts the widespread, silent collection of personal information in cyberspace. At present, it is impossible to know the fate of the personal data that one generates online. Professor Schwartz argues that this state of affairs degrades the health of a deliberative democracy; it cloaks in dark uncertainty the transmutation of Internet activity into personal information that will follow one into other areas and discourage civic participation. This situation also will have a negative impact on individual self- determination by deterring individuals from engaging in the necessary thinking out loud and deliberation with others upon which …
The Architecture Of Privacy: Remaking Privacy In Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig
The Architecture Of Privacy: Remaking Privacy In Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This is an essay about privacy. My aim is to understand privacy through these two very different ideas. Privacy, in the sense that I mean here, can be described by these two different ideas. It stands in competition with these ideas. It is that part of life that is left after one subtracts, as it were, the monitored and the searchable. A life where less is monitored is a life where more is private; and life where less can (legally or technologically) be searched is also a life where more is private. By understanding the technologies of these two different …