On the podcast this week, Konstantinos Stylianou, a former Fulbright Scholar now working on a PhD in law at Penn Law School, and author of the provocative new essay, “Hasta La Vista Privacy, or How Technology Terminated Privacy,” discusses technological determinism and privacy. Stylianou’s thesis is that the evolution of technology is eliminating privacy; therefore, lawmakers should switch emphasis from regulating the collection of information, which he claims is inevitable, to regulating the use of that information. Stylianou discusses why digital networks specifically make it difficult to keep information private, differences between hard and soft technological determinism, and when he thinks people will realize about their private information what the recording industry has finally realized about digital music.
Related Links
- “Hasta La Vista Privacy, or How Technology Terminated Privacy,” by Stylianou
- “Why Your Personal Information Wants to Be Free,” by Jerry Brito
- “Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook users eventually get over privacy anxiety,” ZDNet
- “(your) information wants to be free,” Ben Adida
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