What is Privacy?
the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people.
A zone of inaccessibility
You control who has access...
Where do you draw the line?
Daniel Solove
Ladder of Privacy
- Yourself
- Spouse
- Priest/Rabbi/Imam
- Parents
- Siblings
- Children
- Friends
- In-laws
- Coworkers
- Fellow Students
- Neighbors
- The whole world-wide
Benefits?
Recognizes people as adults, allows them to be themselves...
It allows people to have different kinds of relationship with others.
Harms?
Provides way of covering up actions that are immoral or illegal.
Dysfunctional Families... Child abuse...
Weigh one way vs. another
Right to Privacy ...
No where in the constitution ...
Implicit(not written-down) Right to Privacy through Court Decisions
Roe v. Wade
What is the right to privacy?
The right to be lef alone?
Is a violation of the right to privacy a violation of another right?
Rational people - Social Contract Theory = agree to recognize some sort of privacy rights,
because it would have a benefit to society.
1984
European Union - Look to them for privacy rights
Cookies
Google / Spain
“Right to be forgotten ...”
Logic
True or False
Individual Statements....
Argument - True or False
Invalid vs Valid
Syllogism (n. 三段论;推论)
All men are mortal True
Socrates is a man True
Therefore Socrates is Mortal Conclusion
Valid or Invalid
Buffalo are magical creatures False
A buffalo is living in my backyard False
--->Therefore, a magical creature is living in my backyard False, but it is a valid argument
--->Therefore, buffalo wings are tasty... Maybe ture, but invalid
Buffalo used to roam the great plains
Indians hunted buffalo
--->Therefore buffalo wings are tasty Invalid
Sound vs unsound arguments
If all statements in the rugument are ture AND the conclusion follows from the premises...
Sound argument
One statement in the argument is not ture, but the argument is valid -----> Unsound
An argument that is not sound can still have a conclusion that is true.
Inductive Argument - A type of invalid arguments
Dosen't guarantee the truth of the conclusion. But, the premises can give an idea of the probablility that the conclusion is ture.
85% of the students in this CS306 section are seniors
You are in this class
Therefore you are a senior
Fallacious Argument
- a type of invalid argument