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BlaineTracySecondPaper 3 - 06 May 2024 - Main.BlaineTracy
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> | The Sociopolitical Significance of the Right to Privacy (Second Draft) | | | -- By BlaineTracy - 29 Apr 2024 | | | Many policy issues that have been tied to a rights-based rhetorical framework use the idea of rights infringements to mobilize people into activism, not just more passive forms of political activity like donating or voting. If privacy advocates hope to maximize the reach of their ideas and the impact those ideas have on actual policy, they can use a privacy rights framework to build a social movement. Movement activism towards greater protections of privacy is one way to continue popularizing the privacy invasions people tolerate in their daily lives and can eventually foster true legislative action to protect privacy. | |
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> | Although this paper visualizes movement activism for privacy rights as a budding future initiative, one can see the seeds of this movement being planted. People continue to become more aware of the pervasive surveillance system by which they are surrounded. Currently, the acts of resistance that have gained popular attention are minor, if not trivial. People now commonly install privacy covers over their webcams, or reject unnecessary cookies on websites, or deactivate their device's GPS capabilities. The average person likely has little understanding of how readily they are being tracked and surveilled despite these small protests; however, ten years ago, even fewer people would have thought to protect their privacy in these ways. The public interest in protecting individual privacy from technological surveillance is growing, slowly but surely. While there is not yet a concrete grass roots campaign to protect privacy rights, the groundwork for such a movement has been laid. | | |
This would be the place to offer evidence that such mobilization is actually happening, or has happened. Pro-privacy mobilization as an organizational activity exists: there are organizations in various countries that organize around such issues, including in India SFLC.in, an offshoot of my Software Freedom Law Center founded by my former law partner Mishi Choudhary, In the US, the EFF, CDT, EPIC are all examples of organizational activity. But is the mobilization model factually appropriate? Am I missing other relevant phenomena? |
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