Digital Whoness: Identity, Privacy And Freedom In The Cyberworld

Acknowledgement......Page 13
0 Introduction......Page 15
0.1 The significance of a phenomenology of whoness as the startingpoint for discussing the question concerning privacy and freedom in the internet......Page 17
0.2 A provisional stocktaking of the discussion in information ethics on privacy and freedom in the internet age......Page 19
0.3 Course of the investigation......Page 21
1.1 The trace of whoness starts with the Greeks......Page 25
1.2 Selfhood as an identification with reflections from the world......Page 28
1.3 Values, ethos, ethics......Page 33
1.4 The question concerning rights: personal privacy, trust and intimacy......Page 37
1.5 The private individual, liberty, private property (Locke)......Page 42
1.6 The private individual and private property as a mode of reified sociation: the gainful game (classical political economy, Marx)......Page 48
1.7 Trust as the gainful game’s element and the privacy of private property......Page 54
1.8 Justice and state protection of privacy......Page 59
1.9 Kant’s free autonomous subject and privatio in the use of reason......Page 65
1.10 Privacy as protection of individual autonomy — On Rössler’s The Value of Privacy......Page 71
1.11.1 Arendt’s discovery of the plurality of whos in The Human Condition......Page 85
1.11.2 The question concerning whoness as the key question of social ontology......Page 90
1.11.3 The untenability of the distinction between labour, work and action......Page 98
1.11.4 Whoness and the gainful game......Page 104
1.11.5 Public and private realms?......Page 107
1.12 Recapitulation and outlook......Page 111
2 Digital ontology......Page 113
2.1 From the abstraction from physical beings to their digital representation......Page 114
2.2 Mathematical access to the movement of physical beings......Page 116
2.3 The mathematical conception of linear, continuous time......Page 119
2.4 Outsourcing of the arithmologos as digital code......Page 120
2.5 The parallel cyberworld that fits like a glove......Page 122
2.5.1 Cyberspace......Page 128
2.5.2 Cybertime......Page 129
3.1 Digital identity - a number?......Page 133
3.2 Digital privacy: personal freedom to reveal and conceal......Page 138
3.3 Protection of private property in the cyberworld......Page 141
3.4 Cyber-publicness......Page 149
3.5.1 The cyberworld frees itself first of all......Page 155
3.5.2 The gainful game unleashes its freedom in the cyberworld......Page 160
3.5.3 Human freedom in the cyberworld......Page 162
3.6 Assessing Tavani’s review of theories and issues concerning personal privacy......Page 163
3.7 An appraisal of Nissenbaum’s Privacy in Context......Page 174
3.8.1 The purported “informational nature of personal identity”......Page 184
3.8.2 Floridi’s purportedly “ontological interpretation of informational privacy”......Page 198
3.9 On Charles Ess’ appraisal of Floridi’s information ethics......Page 203
3.9.1 Informational ontology......Page 205
3.9.2 Informational privacy......Page 207
3.9.3 Getting over the subject-object split......Page 210
3.10 Beavers’ response to an objection by Floridi to AI by reverting to Husserlian subjectivist phenomenology......Page 211
4.1 Privacy and publicness from an intercultural viewpoint......Page 217
4.2.1 Japan......Page 219
4.2.2 Thailand......Page 224
4.2.3 China......Page 227
4.3 Latin America......Page 230
4.4 Africa......Page 236
4.5 Conclusion......Page 238
5.1 European integration, freedom, economics......Page 241
5.2 The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms......Page 245
5.3 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights......Page 249
5.4 The Council of Europe Resolution on the protection of the privacy of individuals vis-à-vis electronic data banks in the private and public sectors......Page 251
5.5 The Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data and the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data......Page 254
5.6 Directive 95/46/EC......Page 259
5.7 Directive 2002/58/EC......Page 271
5.8 Communication (2010) 609......Page 275
5.9 Draft Regulation COM (2012) 11 final......Page 278
5.10 Conclusion — a watertight approach?......Page 282
6.1 What’s coming......Page 287
6.2 e-Commerce......Page 289
6.3 Forgetfulness......Page 293
7 Bibliography......Page 295
8 Name index......Page 313