Data Propaganda

In Caul’s awakening, we glimpse what Georgetown law professor Julie Cohen referred to in her 2012 book Configuring the Networked Self as the shift in focus in privacy thinking from individual autonomy to the “social value of privacy.” But for Cohen, Caul’s concerns about even other people’s individual privacy are inadequate. Rather, she argues, theories founded on and bounded by liberal individualism consistently fail to account for how we actually live in a networked world, imbricated as our lives are (and always were, even before the rise of digital technologies) in social and cultural contexts. We make and remake ourselves dynamically as we move in time and among others, as our interests and allegiances change — The Rise of the Cryptopticon – Siva Vaidhyanathan