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    Autonomy over personal information is constitutive of sel... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Privacy is better conceptualized as restricted access to information rather than as strict personal control of information.

    Autonomy over personal information is constitutive of selfhood, not merely instrumental to it, as Westin's foundational work establishes.

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    • 1.Identity formation requires selective self-presentation; without control over personal information disclosure, authentic selfhood cannot develop.
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    • 2.Surveillance and forced transparency eliminate psychological space necessary for reflective thought and autonomous decision-making about one's values.
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    • 3.The ability to keep certain information private is logically prior to having a 'self' to express—it enables the boundary between inner and outer.
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    • 1.Selfhood existed and developed for millennia in small communities with minimal privacy; information control cannot be constitutive if selves formed without it.
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    • 2.Privacy preferences vary culturally and individually; some find identity through transparency and community disclosure rather than information control.
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    • 3.People maintain coherent selves across contexts with different information available; selfhood appears robust to privacy loss, suggesting it's instrumental, not constitutive.
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