The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Luciano?FloridiEmail author |
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| Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Scienze Filosofiche, Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy;(2) Faculty of Philosophy and Information Ethics Group, OUCL, Oxford University, Oxford, UK;(3) Wolfson College, OX2 6UD Oxford, UK |
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| Abstract: | The paper outlines a new interpretation of informational privacy and of its moral value. The main theses defended are: (a)
informational privacy is a function of the ontological friction in the infosphere, that is, of the forces that oppose the
information flow within the space of information; (b) digital ICTs (information and communication technologies) affect the
ontological friction by changing the nature of the infosphere (re-ontologization); (c) digital ICTs can therefore both decrease
and protect informational privacy but, most importantly, they can also alter its nature and hence our understanding and appreciation
of it; (d) a change in our ontological perspective, brought about by digital ICTs, suggests considering each person as being
constituted by his or her information and hence regarding a breach of one’s informational privacy as a form of aggression
towards one’s personal identity. |
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| Keywords: | information ethics informational privacy infosphere ontological friction personal identity |
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