Exam 3: Privacy

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What is Judge Posner's argument regarding privacy? Explain the three parts to his argument.

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Judge Posner believes that there is no fundamental right to privacy and that people are interested in privacy only because they want to conceal their own wrongdoing or prevent embarrassment. He believes that people conceal the truths about them in order to appear healthier, smarter, and more honest than they actually are.
According to a video interview, he says that "because [privacy] has [...] instrumental value, you want to control information about yourself; that will enable you to make advantageous transactions personally, professionally, and commercially with other people."
Posner argues that, in the future, modern notions of privacy will be obsolete. He argument has three parts:
Pre-modern peoples (living in small villages or tribal cultures) had no real ability to conceal anything about themselves, and therefore no privacy. It is perfectly natural for people to live with little or no privacy.
Contemporary people are willing to give up their private information, and become transparent, in return for very small financial incentives or improvements in convenience. This proves that we do not value individual privacy.
Concealment is most useful to criminals, and least useful to honest people. Therefore privacy is mostly a social harm that reduces safety, not a social good.

Solove's taxonomy doesn't break a case into pieces so we can attempt to identify the type of privacy problem it presents, but it does provide strict guidelines that will tell us whether a particular action is right or wrong.

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Match each term with the correct statement below. -publishing or broadcasting false statements about another person, usually with the intent of harming the other person's reputation

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Match each term with the correct statement below. -a court case in 1969 regarding the discovery of a man's pornographic films, deemed to be obscene; he was ruled innocent since his privacy was breached

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What is Solove's approach to improving our understanding of privacy?

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Match each term with the correct statement below. -a situation in which one feels pressure not to do something, even though it is legal to do so, because of fear of prosecution

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Which of these is not a typical definition of privacy found in general dictionaries?

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____ is the act of monitoring continuously, usually via audio, visual, or computer technology.

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Match each term with the correct statement below. -publishing private, but true, information in a way that damages the reputation of a subject

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____ is the act of failing to notify individuals that their data is being collected, or failing to provide a way for individuals to view or correct such data.

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The __________ Amendment makes an important distinction between reasonable and unreasonable searches and seizures

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___________ is the act of controlling what one is allowed to do in one's private life.

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In 2008, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit argued that the right to privacy of ____________________ was similar to that of telephone conversations.

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Match each term with the correct statement below. -professor at the George Washington University School of Law; instead of a single clear definition, he starts with a taxonomy of privacy problems

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The act of using someone else's identity for one's own ends is called ___________.

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Does Posner's opinion fall in line with the application of delaying access to information, as with Michael's paper?

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Besides crime, what are some other beneficial aspects of surveillance in a modern society?

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_________ involves the public display of certain highly private aspects of a person's body or emotions; typically depictions of people in death, sickness, or grief.

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Match each term with the correct statement below. -prohibits telemarketers from calling phone numbers listed on the registry; stops businesses from intruding into our personal lives to try to sell us things

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____ is the feeling one gets when he or she feels pressure not to do something, even though it is legal to do so, because of fear of prosecution.

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