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SUMMARY:Privacy and its Violation
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LOCATION:14 Upper Woburn Place\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC1H 0NN
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Professor Niko Kolodny (Berkeley) delivers the 2024 Shearman Lectures\, on June 05\, 06\, and 07\, at UCL.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Please register for each lecture individually\, via the EventBrite link.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>All lectures will run from 3.00-5.00pm in UCL's Central House Building\, on Upper Woburn Place.</strong></p>\n<p>Pardon the hypotheticals\, but suppose that I peep on you performing some bodily function or in a state of undress.&nbsp\; Suppose I hack into your email account\, read everything you really think of your colleagues\, and share it with them.&nbsp\; Suppose I inform the other guests at a party that you once faultlessly killed a child in an automobile accident.&nbsp\; Suppose I read your diary\, or eavesdrop on your sharing its secrets with your friend.&nbsp\; Suppose I follow you wherever you go in public\, staring intently\, and taking notes on everything you do. &nbsp\;If I do these things\, at least without your consent\, then it is natural to think that I wrong you\, by violating a duty of privacy that I owe to you&mdash\;or\, for short\, by violating your privacy.</p>\n<p>Pardon me telling you things you already know\, but technological changes mean there is vastly greater capacity for <em>gathering</em> information about you.&nbsp\; We carry monitoring devices&mdash\;our smartphones&mdash\;with us at almost all times\, and we install further monitoring devices&mdash\;smart thermostats\, personal assistants&mdash\;in our homes.&nbsp\; These changes also mean that there is vastly greater capacity for <em>storing</em> the information that is gathered. Much of this information about you is also more <em>available</em>\, in the sense that it is easier to get access to the data once you know where it is.&nbsp\; You do not need to travel to the archive or respect their visiting hours\, for example\, if the archive has been digitized and made available online.&nbsp\; Information about you is also more <em>searchable</em>\, in the sense that it is easier to find where the information is in the first place. &nbsp\;It is also easier to <em>broadcast</em> the information to others\; disclosure by tweet is\, at least if you have the right followers\, much more effective than disclosure by leaflet.&nbsp\; Furthermore\, the accumulation of massive data sets\, even sets which don&rsquo\;t include your data\, make possible <em>new inferences or predictions</em> about you: in short\, the acquisition of yet more information about you. &nbsp\;In sum\, others have vastly amplified powers to acquire and share information about you\, and so they have vastly amplified powers to violate your privacy.</p>\n<p>This series of lectures asks three questions.&nbsp\; What is the content of the duty&mdash\;or rather duties&mdash\;of privacy?&nbsp\; What justifies the duties of privacy?&nbsp\; Which digital practices\, if any\, violate the duties of privacy?</p>
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