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    Privacy is better conceptualized as restricted access to ... — Carmelics
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    Privacy is better conceptualized as restricted access to information rather than as strict personal control of information.

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    • 1.Individuals cannot control all information produced about themselves.
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    • 2.Third-party commitment to privacy protection is the more realistic mechanism for achieving meaningful privacy.
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    • 1.Autonomy over personal information is constitutive of selfhood, not merely instrumental to it, as Westin's foundational work establishes.
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    • 2.Restricted access frameworks shift normative authority from the individual to institutional gatekeepers, inverting the rights-bearing relationship.
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    • 3.A right that cannot be waived or exercised by its holder is not a personal right but a regulatory classification imposed from without.
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    • 1.Contextual integrity, per Nissenbaum, requires that individuals govern which norms apply to their information across social spheres.
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    • 2.Restricted access models cannot account for cases where information flows are technically permitted yet experienced as profound violations of privacy.
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    There is a counterargument to this. Herman Tavani and James Moor (2004) argue that in some cases giving the user more control of their information may actually result in greater loss of privacy. Their primary argument is that no one can actually control all of the information about oneself that is produced every day by our activities. If we focus only on the fraction of it that we can control, we lose sight of the vast mountains of data we cannot (Tavani and Moor, 2004). Tavani and Moor argue th
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