The unwanted gaze
by Jeffrey Rosen · first published 2000
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"In this book, Jeffrey Rosen explores the legal, technological, and cultural changes that have undermined our ability to control how much personal information about ourselves is communicated to others, and he proposes ways of reconstructing some of the zones of privacy that law and technology have been allowed to invade. In a world in which everything that Americans read, write, and buy can be recorded and monitored in cyberspace, there is a growing danger that intimate personal information originally disclosed only to our friends and colleagues may be exposed to - and misinterpreted by - a l
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…to the extent that doing so does not erode its net good and properness. There can definitely be such a thing as too much transparency, which Jeffrey Rosen makes a good argument against in his book The Unwanted Gaze. But with Obama personally going out of his way to block scientific research from taking place I don't think we're anywhere near that point yet.[1] [1] C.f. the controversy around Obama nominating Michele…
on “Excellent analysis of Assange's Wikileaks motivations (from the horse's mouth)” ↗…principles explicitly, I noticed something striking: this is practically a recipe for generating a contemptuous initial reaction." Jeffrey Rosen has some good stuff to say about this in his book The Unwanted Gaze. One of his defenses of the right to privacy is that new ideas often seem wrong at first, especially when they're still only half baked. And because of this, progress is seriously impeded when the government…
on “Paul Graham: Six Principles for Making New Things” ↗…such, evolution of privacy follows rather than leads such technologies, it is inherently* reactive, no preemptive. I'm not aware of an explicit similar statement from others though Jeffrey Rosen's The Unwanted Gaze, much of the work of Daniel J. Solove and Helen Nissenbaum have struck me as above par. Harvard historian Jill Lepore has an excellent biography: <https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jlepore/files/lepore_secre...>…
on “What does it mean for users to be in full control over their data (draft) [pdf]” ↗…much-discussed subject, I'm surprised that two huge points never arise" Actually those points come up in pretty much every book about privacy. Your first point is heavily discussed in Jeffrey Rosen's book The Unwanted Gaze, and your second point is sort of the point of Bruce Schneier's book Beyond Fear. See also any of Daniel Solove's books.
on “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'” ↗…point. She's a historian, and should be copiously documenting sources which may be of interest. Unseen: A History of Privacy (2013) https://scholar.harvard.edu/jlepore/presentations/unseen-his... The Unwanted Gaze by Jeffrey Rosen (2001) addresses concerns as the Internet age was beginning to mature. https://www.worldcat.org/title/unwanted-gaze-the-destruction... The EFF and ACLU have extensive resources on privacy,…
on “Facebook Tells Barr It Won’t Open Up Encrypted Messages” ↗Apropos of this link... a couple decades ago I picked up a copy of Jeffrey Rosen's "The Unwanted Gaze." I recommend it to mostly everyone who has time to digest it, especially of you're one of the "I have nothing to hide" people.
on “Eyes on the poor: Cameras, facial recognition watch over public housing” ↗…we think of as our contemporary "surveilance capitalism". There were a series of court decisions that enshrined this practice in law and since then the limits of proscribed speech have expanded. "The Unwanted Gaze" is a good read on this subject. <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/157389/the-unwanted...>
on “Walmart, Delta, and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages” ↗…feminists in order to get reelected whereby he signed some sexual harassment law that basically required employers to monitor all employee communications. Jeffrey Rosen has a book about it called The Unwanted Gaze.
on “HipChat Will Grant Employers Access To 1-to-1 Chat History” ↗Thanks, I wasn't aware of that specifically. The definition draws in part on Jeffrey Rosen's The Unwanted Gaze, published in the late 1990s, and apparently quite underappreciated and/or known. Though it's been a while since I've read it.
on “ActivityPub: decentralized social networking protocol” ↗