In an exchange with Forbes last December, the law professor wondered whether consumers really knew what "trust" meant in a privacy context.
I spoke to Micheal Vonn, Policy Director at the BC Civil Liberties Association, to try to situate Therrien's appearance today within the larger privacy context in Canada.
In her new book, Privacy in Context, she argues that we are willing to give up our rights to privacy to certain ends; say, if a comment we post on the bottom of a blog is quoted elsewhere.
"Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life," Helen Nissenbaum — A theoretical work with a solid grounding in the realities of modern technology that provides a good overview of the debates around what the right to privacy is.
Helen Nissenbaum, a professor of culture, media and communication at New York University and author of "Privacy in Context," a book about information sharing in the digital age, said teenagers were naturally protective of their privacy as they navigate the path to adulthood, and the frequency with which companies change privacy rules has taught them to be wary.
Helen Nissenbaum, "Privacy in Context" The sinister world of Gary Marx's 1990 "Case of the Omniscient Organization" incorporates a set of tensions by now familiar in present-day surveillance scenarios and a myriad other socio-technical systems that track, analyze, and disseminate personal information.
Research has shown that disclosure of partner violence is highly influenced by interviewer factors as well as privacy and context of the interview--factors that are more difficult to control in national surveys designed for other purposes [ 16, 25, 26].
But, in these contexts, privacy is an environmental good, not a transactional one.
He said that was "broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy". Blackmun also drew strength from the fact that the court or individual justices had found the roots of a general right to privacy in other contexts.
In medical contexts, "privacy" is commonly used to denote autonomy, liberty or choice in health-related decision-making (Allen 2014; DeCew 1997; Feinberg 1983).
