Privacy beyond intellectual freedom: Libraries and digital self-sovereignty

Mestre, Juliana

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Privacy beyond intellectual freedom: Libraries and digital self-sovereignty

Author(s)

Mestre, Juliana

Issue Date

2023-09

Keyword(s)

• Critical Librarianship
• Information Ethics
• Information Privacy
• Philosophy of Information
• Political Economy of the Information Society
• Privacy
• Surveillance

Abstract

In this paper, critical methods are used to develop a tri-part argument surrounding data privacy and its implications on digital self-sovereignty in the context of libraries. First, the introduction is used to expand on the changing landscape of privacy and librarianship in relation to the data collection rife among library vendors. Second, I turn to the philosophy of information to establish how personal data, as personally identifiable information, are integral to the constitution of the self and thus to digital self-sovereignty. Third, Derridean theory is used to explain how a loss of digital self-sovereignty impacts the very possibility of ethical intersubjectivity. The goal of this paper is to challenge assumptions about data privacy, digital self-sovereignty, and the impact on ethical intersubjectivity in the 21st century, thus contributing to the philosophical scaffolding around privacy as a value for librarianship.

Series/Report Name or Number

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2023

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Paper / Presentation

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/123150

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2023.1370

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• Copyright 2023 Juliana Mestre
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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