The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality by Luciano Floridi

Author:Luciano Floridi [Floridi, Luciano]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780199606726
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

Confidentiality is an intimate bond that is hard and slow to forge properly, yet resilient to many external forces when finally in place, as the supra-agent is stronger than the constitutive agents themselves. Relatives, friends, classmates, fellows, colleagues, comrades, companions, partners, teammates, spouses, and so forth may all have experienced the nature of such a bond, the stronger taste of a ‘we’. But it is also a bond brittle and difficult to restore when it comes to internal betrayal, since the disclosure, deliberate or unintentional, of some personal information in violation of confidence can entirely and irrecoverably destroy the privacy of the new supra-agent born out of the joining agents, by painfully tearing them apart. The ‘we’ is strongly armoured against ‘the other’, but extremely fragile against the internal betrayal from ‘one of us’.

A final issue can be touched upon rather briefly, as it has already been mentioned: the self-constituting interpretation stresses that privacy is also a matter of construction of one’s own identity. Your right to be left alone is also your right to be allowed to experiment with your own life, to start again, without having records that mummify your personal identity for ever, taking away from you the power to form and mould who you are and can be. Every day, a person may wish to build a different, possibly better, ‘I’. We never stop becoming ourselves, so protecting a person’s privacy also means allowing that person the freedom to construct and change herself profoundly. The right to privacy is also the right to a renewable identity.

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