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Record Nr.

UNINA9910551841603321

Autore

Seele Peter

Titolo

Behind the cloud : a theory of the private without secrecy / / Peter Seele and Lucas Zapf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; New York, New York : , : Springer-Verlag, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-662-64502-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages)

Disciplina

004.6782

Soggetti

Data protection

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: Behind the Cloud -- 1.1  On the Changing Relationship Between Privacy and Secrecy in the Digital Age -- 1.2  Facets of Change: Privacy Without Secrecy on Three Levels -- 1.3  Digital Promises: Masters of the Universe with Secret Weaknesses -- 1.4  Distinction from Cases Not Dealt with -- 1.5  Does the Digital Age Still Need Theory? -- References -- Part I: The Secret Private: Introduction and Derivation -- 2: "Privacy Is Dead": How Could It Come to This? -- 2.1  What Is the Private Sphere? -- 2.2  The Secret Private: Three Types -- 2.2.1  God Sees Everything: Transcendent Analogous Omniscience -- 2.2.2  "Secret Privates": Immanent Analogical Self-Knowledge -- 2.2.3  "Privacy Without Secrecy": Immanent Digital Omniscience -- 2.2.4  Encroachments on the Secret Private in Digital Omniscience -- 2.3  Mass Society as a Social Precondition of Immanent-Digital Omniscience -- 2.3.1  Historical Materialism and De-individualization -- 2.3.2  The Drive towards Individualisation: Counterculture, Rebel Sell and Digitalisation -- 2.3.3  Summary: Digital, Individualised Mass Society and the Abolition of the Secret Private Sphere -- References -- Part II: Symptoms of the Structural Change of the Private -- 3: Showcasing Digital Omniscience in Everyday Life -- 3.1  Driving a Taxi -- 3.1.1  "Hello Taxi!" -- 3.1.2  TaxiApp -- 3.1.3  Uber -- 3.2  Overnight Stay -- 3.2.1  The Middle-Class Bedroom -- 3.2.2  Overnight



Stay in the Boarding House -- 3.2.3  Airbnb -- 3.3  Celebrating and Eating -- 3.3.1  'Everyone Brings Something' -- 3.3.2  Running Dinner -- 3.3.3  Food and Party -- 3.4  Sharing -- 3.4.1  St Martin: Sharing out of Religious Conviction -- 3.4.2  Collaborative Consumption: Sharing for a Better World -- 3.4.3  Sharing Economy: Sharing as a Business Case -- 3.5  Tying up -- 3.5.1  The Village Fete.

3.5.2  Speed Dating -- 3.5.3  Parship -- 3.6  Advertising and Recommendations -- 3.6.1  Billboard, Newspaper Advertisement and Personal Recommendation -- 3.6.2  Quota Boxes and Direct Marketing -- 3.6.3  Integrated Personalised Advertising: AdWorks and Spying Billboards -- 3.7  Surveillance -- 3.7.1  The Village Policeman -- 3.7.2  Video Surveillance/CCTV -- 3.7.3  Widespread Access to Private Communications: General Surveillance -- 3.8  Work and Employment -- 3.8.1  Natural Working Rhythm -- 3.8.2  The Time Clock -- 3.8.3  Smartphone Tracking by the Boss -- 3.9  Election and Political Advertising -- 3.9.1  The Secret Ballot and the Election Poster -- 3.9.2  Voting Machines and Civil Dialogue -- 3.9.3  Obama and Pandora -- 3.10  Networks -- 3.10.1  Pinboard -- 3.10.2  Analogue-Digital Information Networks -- 3.10.3  The Powerful Digital Network -- 3.11  Payment and Digital Currencies -- 3.11.1  Cash -- 3.11.2  Credit Card -- 3.11.3  Cryptocurrency -- 3.12  Books and e-Books -- 3.12.1  One Edition, One Word -- 3.12.2  Zeros and Ones Are Patient: Books and e-Books in Peaceful Co-Existence -- 3.12.3  E-Books: When the Reader Reads the Reader -- 3.13  Sexuality and the Internet: The Incognito Illusion -- 3.13.1  Adult Entertainment from the Station Bookshop -- 3.13.2  When Pictures Learned to Surf -- 3.13.3  The Incognito Illusion, Fitness Trackers and Bedside Bugs -- References -- Part III: Theory of a Structural Change of the Private -- 4: The Private Sphere Changes: A Consequence of Digitalization -- 4.1  Economic Structural Change of the Private Sector -- 4.1.1  Political and Personal Significance of the Economy and Its Digitalisation -- 4.1.2  Economic Use of Personal Information -- 4.1.3  The Secret Private as a Business Case: Seamless Products and Platform Capitalism -- 4.1.4  The Shaping of the Secret Private by Companies.

4.2  Political Structural Change of the Private Sector -- 4.2.1  Intrusion of Politics into the Secret Private Sphere of Citizens -- 4.2.2  Mixing Politics and Economics Through the Use of the Secret Private Sphere -- 4.2.3  Opposition to the Political Domination of the Private Sphere -- 4.2.4  Democratic-Legislative Updating of the Concept of Privacy -- 4.3  Social Structural Change of the Private Sphere -- 4.3.1  More Exchange, Less Self-Determination: Informational Heteronomy -- 4.3.2  New Social Spaces: Digital Intentionality and Self-Policing -- 4.3.2.1 Digital Intentionality -- 4.3.2.2 Self-Policing Instead of the Right to Be Forgotten -- References -- 5: Summary: Thoughts in a Digital World: Free, but no Longer Secret -- 5.1  Typology of the Secret Private -- 5.2  Symptoms and Theory of Structural Change -- 5.3  Digital Formation of the Secret Private -- References -- 6: Conclusion: Our Secrets Behind the Cloud -- 6.1  The Updated Concept of the Secret -- 6.2  The Secret Private in the Realm of Machines -- 6.3  What to Do? -- 6.3.1  Making People Aware of What They Have Made -- 6.3.2  Conscious Use of the Digital Infrastructure -- 6.3.3  Privacy as a Business Model -- 6.4  In Conclusion -- References -- 7: Outlook: Digital Authenticity: Immersive Consumption Without Secrets -- 7.1  What Is Authenticity? -- 7.2  Disney and Audi: Authenticity Brings Sales -- 7.3  Authenticity Without Secrecy -- References -- From Ethical Considerations to Proposed Legal Solutions: An Afterword by Bertil Cottier.