Data and Power: From Individual Consent to Societal Transparency

Citation: Frank Pasquale Data and Power: From Individual Consent to Societal Transparency.
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Summary

Notes collective action problem for privacy: consumers don't have time, market doesn't provide. Suggests "reciprocal transparency": institutions that require private info from consumers should themselves be required to be more transparent.

Conclusion:

Inexorable technological and social forces will continue to put more data out of the control of the individuals whom the data (putatively) describes. Even if this process ends many traditional conceptions of privacy, it can be harnessed to generate the accountability and fair outcomes that privacy law was designed to promote, if “watchers” reciprocate and allow themselves to be better watched.

Theoretical and Practical Relevance

Does not mention sousveillance, but seems analogous, as in

institutions-monitor-individuals (surveillance) : public-monitor-institutions (sousveillance) :: individuals-reveal-to-institutions : institutions-reveal-to-public