Privacy Rights: Moral And Legal Foundations

250 Pages·2010·2.038 MB·English

by  Adam D. Moore

PRIVACY
RIGHTS
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Adam D. Moore
P R I V A C Y
R I G H T S
MORAL AND LEGAL
FOUNDATIONS
The Pennsylvania State University Press
University Park, Pennsylvania
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ForAmy,Alan,andKimberly
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Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
Summary:‘‘Providesadefinitionanddefenseofindividual
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includingprivacyversusfreespeech;drugtesting;and
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1. Privacy,Rightof—UnitedStates.
2. Dataprotection—Lawandlegislation—UnitedStates.
3. Publicrecords—Accesscontrol—UnitedStates.
4. Freedomofspeech—UnitedStates.
5. Drugtesting—Lawandlegislation—UnitedStates.
6. Intellectualproperty—UnitedStates.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
1
Introduction 1
2
DefiningPrivacy 11
3
TheValueofPrivacy 33
4
JustifyingPrivacyRightstoBodiesandLocations 57
5
ProvidingforInformationalPrivacyRights 81
6
StrengtheningLegalPrivacyRights 99
7
Privacy,Speech,andtheLaw 133
8
DrugTestingandPrivacyintheWorkplace 153
9
EvaluatingFreeAccessArguments:Privacy,
IntellectualProperty,andHacking 175
10
Privacy,Security,andPublicAccountability 189
SelectBibliography 216
FurtherReadings 225
Index 234
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Much of the work on Chapters 2 through 4 of this manuscript was com-
pleted while I was a fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center,
Bowling Green State University, in the summer of 2002. A shortened ver-
sionofChapter4,‘‘JustifyingPrivacyRightstoBodiesandLocations,’’was
presentedatthefellowssummercolloquiaseries.IwouldliketothankFred
D. Miller Jr., Ellen Frankel Paul, Jeffrey Paul, Travis Cook, and the other
summer fellows Edward Feser, Richard Timberlake, and George Selgin for
their suggestions and comments. I am grateful to Kim Moore for editing
Chapters 1 and 2; Jay Hester for offering comments on Chapters 1 and 10;
ScottFieldsforeditingChapter5;PeterWinnforprovidingsuggestionson
Chapters6,7,and10;andSarahBosargeforhelpingwiththebibliography.
I would like to thank Judith Wagner DeCew, James Stacey Taylor, and
WilliamKlineforreadingandcommentingontheentiremanuscript—the
critiquesandsuggestionsofferedbythesereviewershavehelpedimmeasur-
ably.
During the summer of 2004 and again in the fall of 2007 much of the
material found in this work was presented and discussed in an upper-
division undergraduate/graduatecourse atthe Universityof Washington. I
wouldliketothankthestudentswhoattendedtheseclassesfortheirastute
commentsandsuggestions.KrisUnsworthandElizabethJonesdeservespe-
cialmention.
Chapter 5, ‘‘Providing for Informational Privacy Rights,’’ benefited sig-
nificantly from being presented at the American Philosophical Association
Meetings(March23–27,2005)andattheConferenceonInformationalPri-
vacy,April27–28,2007,UniversityofSanDiegoInstituteforLawandPub-
lic Policy. I am grateful to Judith Wagner DeCew, James Griffin, Amitai
Etzioni, David Brink, Larry Alexander, Daniel Solove, Kenneth Himma,
Richard Arneson, Don Dripps, Adam Kolber, Evan Lee, Orly Lobel, and
SamRicklessforprovidingcriticismsandsuggestions.Chapter10,‘‘Privacy,
Security,andPublicAccountability,’’waspresentedattheAmericanPhilo-
sophical Association’s Mini-Conference on Secrecy, March 22–26, 2006.
Thanks to Tom Grassey, David Woolwine, Don Fallis, Kenneth Himma,
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