Orienting privacy literacy toward social change (Kumar, 2023)
This article (1) explains why privacy is a valuable rallying point around which people can resist datafication, (2) locates privacy… read more
Dismantling the “Black Opticon”: Privacy, Race, Equity, and Online Data-Protection Reform (Allen)
African Americans online face three distinguishable but related categories of vulnerability to bias and discrimination that I dub the “Black… read more
How Data Can Be Used Against People: A Classification of Personal Data Misuses (Kröger, Miceli, & Müller)
Even after decades of intensive research and public debates, the topic of data privacy remains surrounded by confusion and misinformation…. read more
Privacy Law Commons – BEPress
A repository of law review articles on privacy issues from BEPress. http://network.bepress.com/law/privacy-law/
A new algorithmic identity: Soft biopolitics and the modulation of control (Cheney-Lippold)
Marketing and web analytic companies have implemented sophisticated algorithms to observe, analyze, and identify users through large surveillance networks online…. read more
Algorithmic Folk Theories and Identity: How TikTok Users Co-Produce Knowledge of Identity and Engage in Algorithmic Resistance (Karizat, Delmonaco, Eslami, & Andalibi)
Algorithms in online platforms interact with users’ identities in different ways. However, little is known about how users understand the… read more
Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology (van Dijck)
Metadata and data have become a regular currency for citizens to pay for their communication services and security—a trade-off that… read more
Turning privacy inside out (Cohen)
The problem of theorizing privacy moves on two levels, the first consisting of an inadequate conceptual vocabulary and the second… read more