Personal Information as Communicative Acts
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Personal Information as Communicative Acts. / Mai, Jens-Erik.
In: Ethics and Information Technology, Vol. 18, No. 1, 01.05.2016, p. 51-57.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Personal Information as Communicative Acts
AU - Mai, Jens-Erik
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - The paper extends previous accounts of informational privacy as a contextual notion. Where previous accounts have focused on interpretations of the privacy context itself as being contextual and open for negotiation and interpretation, this paper extends those analyses and shows that personal information itself is in fact best understood as contextual and situational—and as such open for interpretation. The paper reviews the notion of information as it has been applied in informational privacy and philosophy of information, and suggests that personal information ought to be regarded as communicative acts. The paper suggests a reconceptualization of informational privacy from having its focus on controlling, limiting, and restricting access to material carriers of information to a focus on a regulation of the use, analysis, and interpretation of personal information.
AB - The paper extends previous accounts of informational privacy as a contextual notion. Where previous accounts have focused on interpretations of the privacy context itself as being contextual and open for negotiation and interpretation, this paper extends those analyses and shows that personal information itself is in fact best understood as contextual and situational—and as such open for interpretation. The paper reviews the notion of information as it has been applied in informational privacy and philosophy of information, and suggests that personal information ought to be regarded as communicative acts. The paper suggests a reconceptualization of informational privacy from having its focus on controlling, limiting, and restricting access to material carriers of information to a focus on a regulation of the use, analysis, and interpretation of personal information.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Personal information
KW - Personal data
KW - Informational privacy
KW - Privacy
KW - Philosophy of information
KW - Personal information
KW - Personal data
KW - Informational privacy
KW - Privacy
KW - Philosophy of information
UR - http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10676-016-9390-4
U2 - 10.1007/s10676-016-9390-4
DO - 10.1007/s10676-016-9390-4
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 51
EP - 57
JO - Ethics and Information Technology
JF - Ethics and Information Technology
SN - 1388-1957
IS - 1
ER -
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