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Privacy, Control, and Talk of Rights

Social Philosophy and PolicyPublished 1 January 2000
R. G. Frey
Citations20
SJR quartileQ2
SJR score0.18
SNIP0.31

Abstract

An alleged moral right to informational privacy assumes that we should have control over information about ourselves. What is the philosophical justification for this control? I think that one prevalent answer to this question—an answer that has to do with the justification of negative rights generally—will not do.

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