Actor-Based Approach of Privacy Regulation
Explore the concept of privacy as a virtue and the shift towards an actor-based approach in privacy regulation, challenging the current legal paradigm. Bart van der Sloot delves into the problems with individual-centric models, presenting a virtue-based alternative that emphasizes societal and structural perspectives. Join the discussion on redefining privacy through principles like duty of care, inner morality of law, and virtues such as temperance, prudence, and justice.
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Privacy as virtue: Towards an actor based approach of privacy regulation Bart van der Sloot, Institute for Information Law
Overview 1. Introduction 2. The current legal paradigm and its problems 3. Alternative, virtue based privacy model
1. Introduction Researcher Institute for Information Law (http://www.ivir.nl/medewerkers/vandersloot. html) Coordinator of the Amsterdam Platform for Privacy Research (www.appr.uva.nl) Phd-Research funded by an NWO Top Talent Grant
2. Problems with legal paradigm Examples of topical privacy issues: Snowden, internet monitoring, data bases, camera surveillance, group profiling, facial reconition, DNA profiles, iris scans & fingerprints Current paradigm focussed on individual rights and individual interest However, privacy is no longer an indivdiual problem, but a structural and societal matter Practical problems: (awareness, jurisdiction, balance) Theoretical problem: the current paradigm focusses on the wrong aspect
3. Towards a virtue based account of privacy regulation 1. From subjective rights to duty of care by governments (actor based approach) 2. From an personal value to an intrinsic quality of laws and policy (inner morality of law) 3. From a balance of values to an intrinsic assessment of policies on the basis of virtues (temperance, prudence, justice)
