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    It is not the case that Control of access to one's personal information is the key to maintaining privacy.

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    • 1.Privacy is fundamentally about appropriate information flows relative to context, not individual control (Nissenbaum's contextual integrity).
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    • 2.Information shared in medical contexts retains privacy protection even when the patient exercises no active control over its dissemination.
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    • 3.Control-based accounts cannot explain why involuntarily exposed information still generates legitimate privacy violations.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Structural conditions—surveillance capitalism, algorithmic inference—render meaningful individual control over personal data largely illusory (Zuboff).
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    • 2.A right whose exercise is systematically impossible cannot serve as the conceptual foundation for the interest it is meant to protect.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Privacy requires that individuals have control over who can access their personal information.
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    • 2.Without control over access to personal information, individuals cannot enforce their moral right to privacy.
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