http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/
Reading for Meaning
1. Read to summarize: Write a sentence or two explaining Solove’s position on privacy and information gathering
2. Read to Pespond; Write a paragraph analyzing the initial reactions to solove’s essay. For example, consider anything that resonates with your experience ot that seems contradictory, surprising, or fascinating such as Soloves’ decicion of violations of privacy into two types: Orwellian and Kafkaesque. Solove’s argument that the loss of privacy is usually incremental. “encoded every time.
3. Read to Analyze assumption. Write a paragraph or two analyzing an assumptions in Solove’s essay:
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Reading for Meaning Responses
Read to Summarize
In the article “Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have “Nothing to Hide,”” in our text Reading Critically Writing Well, author Daniel J. Solove believes that “Privacy…involves so many things that it is impossible to reduce them all to one simple idea” (342). His position challenges the governments ability to track and store citizens personal information for their own, undisclosed use.
Read to Respond
Solove’s article makes me think of “Big Brother,” who censors everything a person or a group of citizens does. When a person or group is censored through their shopping choices, or through the phone calls that they make, it is intrusive. Solove points out various of types of privacy issues, that could be considered personally violating. One of his points that I find personally violating, is his point about personal information being gathered on a person, but they are not privy to its use. This type of privacy issue is hurtful and insulting. This type of privacy violation is not limited to government enforcement or to the nothing-to-hide argument, which Solove focuses on in his article.
Read to Analyze Assumptions
Solove focuses on the problems with the nothing-to-hide argument, and the governments ability to gather information on citizens. He contends that privacy does not necessarily mean that a person is hiding something bad. He discusses the issues with government intrusion on privacy, and the potential problems that could occur, if the government is allowed to obtain full surveillance on citizens. He believes that the harms on citizens are bureaucratic, and that the government will most likely not be held accountable for their use of personal information (Solove 344). He points out privacy problems such as, exclusion, secondary use, and distortion. He suggests that if allowed, the government will have complete monitoring systems in place over a period of time. Solove assumes that government privacy accountability causes concern for fear in citizens. He also assumes that government record keeping systems will be compromised. He assumes that the government will cause citizens harm.
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