The privacy dependency thesis and self-defense

TY - JOUR

T1 - The privacy dependency thesis and self-defense

AU - Munch, Lauritz Aastrup

AU - Mainz, Jakob Thrane

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023.

PY - 2024/10

Y1 - 2024/10

N2 - If I decide to disclose information about myself, this act may undermine other people’s ability to conceal information about them. Such dependencies are called privacy dependencies in the literature. Some say that privacy dependencies generate moral duties to avoid sharing information about oneself. If true, we argue, then it is sometimes justified for others to impose harm on the person sharing information to prevent them from doing so. In this paper, we first show how such conclusions arise. Next, we show that the existence of such a dependency between the moral significance you are inclined to attribute to privacy dependencies and judgments about permissible self-defense puts pressure on at least some ways of spelling out the idea that privacy dependencies ought to constrain our data-sharing conduct.

AB - If I decide to disclose information about myself, this act may undermine other people’s ability to conceal information about them. Such dependencies are called privacy dependencies in the literature. Some say that privacy dependencies generate moral duties to avoid sharing information about oneself. If true, we argue, then it is sometimes justified for others to impose harm on the person sharing information to prevent them from doing so. In this paper, we first show how such conclusions arise. Next, we show that the existence of such a dependency between the moral significance you are inclined to attribute to privacy dependencies and judgments about permissible self-defense puts pressure on at least some ways of spelling out the idea that privacy dependencies ought to constrain our data-sharing conduct.

KW - Genetic tests

KW - Privacy dependencies

KW - Privacy rights

KW - Self-defense

KW - Surveillance

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85168386817&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s00146-023-01734-w

DO - 10.1007/s00146-023-01734-w

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85168386817

SN - 0951-5666

VL - 39

SP - 2525

EP - 2535

JO - AI and Society

JF - AI and Society

IS - 5

ER -