D14.0a – Framework V0
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
pub_del_D14.0.a_ec_wp14.0_V6_final.pdf (application/pdf Object) " Efforts to arrive at one unifying definition or interpretation of privacy therefore seem to be hopeless. According to a long-time privacy scholar Alan Westin, no definition of privacy is possible, because privacy issues are fundamentally matters of values, interests, and power (Westin 1995, cited in [22]). ...
Both in the developing online and offline world, we may perceive identities to be socially constructed in private relationships, but also in institutional arrangements where persons are identified and classified and in which decisions are taken about their desires and needs, their rights and claims. Identity therefore is not a constant but a process. Our identity is not developed by keeping ourselves separate from others: our identity is what others know about us. In knowing about us, power is already exercised (see [28]). In addition, having knowledge or power may imply the risk of power abuse."
Source: prime-project
Both in the developing online and offline world, we may perceive identities to be socially constructed in private relationships, but also in institutional arrangements where persons are identified and classified and in which decisions are taken about their desires and needs, their rights and claims. Identity therefore is not a constant but a process. Our identity is not developed by keeping ourselves separate from others: our identity is what others know about us. In knowing about us, power is already exercised (see [28]). In addition, having knowledge or power may imply the risk of power abuse."
Source: prime-project