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Intimacy 2.0: Privacy Rights and Privacy Responsibilities on the World Wide Web

Intimacy 2.0: Privacy Rights and Privacy Responsibilities on the World Wide Web
Intimacy 2.0: Privacy Rights and Privacy Responsibilities on the World Wide Web
This paper examines the idea of privacy in the world of ‘intimacy 2.0’, the use of Web 2.0 social networking technologies and multimedia for the routine posting of intimate details of users’ lives. It will argue that, although privacy is often conceived as a right with benefits that accrue to the individual, it is better seen as a public good, whose benefits accrue to the community in general. In that case, the costs of allowing invasions of one’s privacy do not solely fall on the individual who is unwise enough to do so, but also on wider society.
Privacy, social networking, public and private goods, privacy rights, Web 2.0, Intimacy 2.0, communitarianism, liberalism
O'Hara, Kieron
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Zittrain, Jonathan
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Domingue, John
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Benn, Neil
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O'Hara, Kieron
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Zittrain, Jonathan
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O'Hara, Kieron (2010) Intimacy 2.0: Privacy Rights and Privacy Responsibilities on the World Wide Web. Zittrain, Jonathan, Domingue, John and Benn, Neil (eds.) Web Science Conference 2010, , Raleigh, United States. 26 - 27 Apr 2010.

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Abstract

This paper examines the idea of privacy in the world of ‘intimacy 2.0’, the use of Web 2.0 social networking technologies and multimedia for the routine posting of intimate details of users’ lives. It will argue that, although privacy is often conceived as a right with benefits that accrue to the individual, it is better seen as a public good, whose benefits accrue to the community in general. In that case, the costs of allowing invasions of one’s privacy do not solely fall on the individual who is unwise enough to do so, but also on wider society.

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Published date: April 2010
Additional Information: Event Dates: 26-27 April, 2010
Venue - Dates: Web Science Conference 2010, , Raleigh, United States, 2010-04-26 - 2010-04-27
Keywords: Privacy, social networking, public and private goods, privacy rights, Web 2.0, Intimacy 2.0, communitarianism, liberalism
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 268760
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/268760
PURE UUID: de1e7d23-eb33-48f9-84d8-31803e324d82
ORCID for Kieron O'Hara: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9051-4456

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Date deposited: 19 Mar 2010 11:51
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:09

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Author: Kieron O'Hara ORCID iD
Editor: Jonathan Zittrain
Editor: John Domingue
Editor: Neil Benn

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