privacy

Privacy is about the ability or right of people to control what information or physical knowledge about themselves is available to others. More broadly it is associated with personal integrity –– being in control of ones own body, mind and social relationships. Many countries have {[data protection}} legislation which restricts those collecting or holding data. Digital systems create threwats to privacy both through the accidental leakage of information or through deliberate or ill-considered sharing by others, such as personal photographs. The harms can be financial (e.g. identity theft), social (e.g. embarassment), and psychological (e.g. feeling exposed). Often provacy is seen purely as a form of secrecy of personal information, but the invasion of personal integrity is broader: for example deep fakes that create nude or other forms of false appearance or the use of aggregated data for purposes that the data subject would not have assented to.

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