Exploring Privacy from a Philosophical Perspective: Conceptual and Normative Dimensions

Philosophical approaches to privacy focus on clarifying its many dimensions, providing a conceptual foundation for thinking about privacy in deep and fruitful ways. Philosophical inquiry also explores the normative and ethical dimensions of privacy, including the sources and nature of moral obligations; the interaction between privacy and other values such as security, transparency, democratic society, and justice; the relation between privacy and related concepts such as personal property and self-ownership; and the role of privacy in cultivating the self, intimacy, trust, and flourishing communities.