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    If we care about privacy, then we should give all control... — Carmelics
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    If we care about privacy, then we should give all control of access to personal information to the individual.

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    • 1.Control of access to one's personal information is the key to maintaining privacy.
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    • 2.Privacy is a value worth protecting.
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    • 1.Privacy exists alongside competing social values—transparency, accountability, and public safety—that can legitimately override individual control.
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    • 2.Absolute individual control over personal information would shield wrongdoers from justified scrutiny, undermining the rule of law.
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    • 3.Warren and Brandeis's foundational privacy framework already acknowledged that privacy rights yield to matters of public concern.
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    • 1.Nissenbaum's contextual integrity theory holds that privacy is violated not by access per se, but by information flowing outside appropriate social contexts.
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    • 2.If contextual norms rather than individual will determine appropriate information flow, then individual control is neither necessary nor sufficient for privacy protection.
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    Who has the final say whether or not some information about a user is communicated or not? Who is allowed to sell your medical records, your financial records, your email, your browser history, etc.? If you do not have control over this process, then how can you enforce your own moral right to privacy? For instance Alan Westin argued in the very early decades of the advance of digital information technologies that control of access to one’s personal information was the key to maintaining privacy
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