Successful Failure: What Foucault can Teach Us about Privacy Self-Management in a World of Facebook and Big Data by Gordon Hull
The article deals with the FB era privacy issues and argues that "current reliance on privacy self-management, epitomized by notice and consent regimes, not only completely fails to protect privacy, but that it does so in a way that encourages adherence to several core neoliberal techniques of power: the belief that privacy can only be treated in terms of individual economic choices to disclose information; the occlusion of the fact that these choices are demonstrably impossible to make in the manner imagined; and the occlusion of the ways that privacy has social value outside whatever benefits or losses may accrue to individuals. In Foucauldian terms, that is, privacy self-management functions as a technology of neoliberal governance, by inculcating the belief that subjectivity and ethical behavior are matters primarily of individual risk management coupled with individual responsibility for poorly-managed risks".
Metaphor for trading on internet (seems to be a paradigm for economy in general): “better than the analogy to a purchase transaction would be an analogy to obtaining free medical care in exchange for participating in a trial of a new medical treatment”. The privacy concern persists but: "users try to preserve privacy norms in their social dealings with one another, but seem less concerned to protect their privacy against Facebook" / “social factors rather than concerns about a company’s privacy practices may be the primary factor that influences disclosure behavior”.
Economic approach to the privacy matters is based on the general neoliberal approach: "forced conversion of aleatory, chance moments into risk calculations – the burden for which is borne entirely by those compelled to make them – is a widely recognized feature of neoliberal governmentality in general". Which makes individaul "“entrepreneur of himself,” maximizing his expected returns based on calculated risks and investments of his human and other capital". And "construes individuals as consumers who make economic decisions about the value of their privacy as an alienable commodity".
Optimistic is reiterated through Foucault where power is a resistance, they are and act together: "to understand the privacy paradox is as a besieged form of resistance, of an effort, as Foucault puts it, “to refuse what we are”".
The article deals with the FB era privacy issues and argues that "current reliance on privacy self-management, epitomized by notice and consent regimes, not only completely fails to protect privacy, but that it does so in a way that encourages adherence to several core neoliberal techniques of power: the belief that privacy can only be treated in terms of individual economic choices to disclose information; the occlusion of the fact that these choices are demonstrably impossible to make in the manner imagined; and the occlusion of the ways that privacy has social value outside whatever benefits or losses may accrue to individuals. In Foucauldian terms, that is, privacy self-management functions as a technology of neoliberal governance, by inculcating the belief that subjectivity and ethical behavior are matters primarily of individual risk management coupled with individual responsibility for poorly-managed risks".
Metaphor for trading on internet (seems to be a paradigm for economy in general): “better than the analogy to a purchase transaction would be an analogy to obtaining free medical care in exchange for participating in a trial of a new medical treatment”. The privacy concern persists but: "users try to preserve privacy norms in their social dealings with one another, but seem less concerned to protect their privacy against Facebook" / “social factors rather than concerns about a company’s privacy practices may be the primary factor that influences disclosure behavior”.
Economic approach to the privacy matters is based on the general neoliberal approach: "forced conversion of aleatory, chance moments into risk calculations – the burden for which is borne entirely by those compelled to make them – is a widely recognized feature of neoliberal governmentality in general". Which makes individaul "“entrepreneur of himself,” maximizing his expected returns based on calculated risks and investments of his human and other capital". And "construes individuals as consumers who make economic decisions about the value of their privacy as an alienable commodity".
Optimistic is reiterated through Foucault where power is a resistance, they are and act together: "to understand the privacy paradox is as a besieged form of resistance, of an effort, as Foucault puts it, “to refuse what we are”".
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