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

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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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    • 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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