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    It is not the case that Privacy is better conceptualized as restricted access to information rather than as strict personal control of information.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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