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Privacy and pluralism - by saffron - Under the Rose

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Wrangling a chameleon

I’ve always believed that privacy is a boring thing to think about. Now, I just think that most discussions about privacy involved such vague and ill-defined notions that they become unproductive, and hence uninteresting. And for good reason — privacy, I’ve found, is a difficult conceptual knot to untangle, involving unusual but not illogical ways of reasoning. Approached abstractly, the question Why does privacy matter? gives me nothing. I can’t say why, other than coming up with the uncertain, vague, and also very abstract notions of autonomy and freedom. But it has become apparent that…

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