About this Event
Privacy is one of the most contested concepts of our time. In his recent book, The Seven Veils of Privacy, Kieron O’Hara sets out a rigorous and comprehensive framework for understanding debates about privacy and our rights to it. Much of the conflict around privacy comes from a failure to recognise divergent perspectives. Some people argue about human rights, some about social conventions, others about individual preferences and still others about information and data processing. As a result, 'privacy' has become the focus of competing definitions, leading some to denounce the 'disarray' in the field.But disagreements about the role and value of privacy obscure a large amount of agreement on the topic. Privacy is not a technical term of law, cybersecurity or sociology, but a word in common use that adequately expresses a few simple and related ideas. Once we learn to distinguish the different discourses involving the term, the apparent disarray dissolves, and the parochial nature of our disagreements revealed.
16:15 - Refreshments available
16:30 - Talk
17:15 - Q&A
17:30 - End
Location: Building 53 (Mountbatten), Room 4025, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, SO17 1BJ.
*Please note this event will be recorded and livestreamed.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of Southampton Highfield Campus, University of Southampton Highfield Campus, Southampton, United Kingdom
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