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Written by a select international group of leading privacy scholars, Social Dimensions of Privacy endorses and develops an innovative approach to privacy. By debating topical privacy cases in their specific research areas, the contributors explore the new privacy-sensitive areas: legal scholars and political theorists discuss the European and American approaches to privacy regulation; sociologists explore new forms of surveillance and privacy on social network sites; and philosophers revisit feminist critiques of privacy, discuss markets in personal data, issues of privacy in health care and democratic politics. The broad interdisciplinary character of the volume will be of interest to readers from a variety of scientific disciplines who are concerned with privacy and data protection issues

Personen die kunnen nadenken over welk leven ze willen leven en daarover beslissingen kunnen nemen, zijn autonome personen. En een samenleving waarin wij willen leven en die we goedkeuren omdat ze ons allen de mogelijkheden geeft onze interesses en ons karakter te vormen is een rechtvaardige samenleving. Autonomie en rechtvaardigheid horen bij elkaar: de oude aristotelische principiële vraag - wat een goed leven is - stellen en beantwoorden we voor onszelf als autonoom persoon wanneer we proberen afstand te nemen tot onze eigen wensen, tot de rollen die we te spelen kregen en de normen waarnaa

The idea of "meaningful work" has attracted relatively little attention during the past decades. Most contemporary social and political theories -- not only of the liberal variety -- hold it to be either superfluous or impossible to conceptualize something like the value, the meaning, or the normative or evaluative content of work. The liberal version of the argument usually goes that in a context of value pluralism -- in liberal democratic societies -- it is not up to the state to determine whether or not work should be a central source of value in an individual's life; rather, individuals should be free to choose their particular source of value and meaning from a range of sources, such as family, relations of love and friendship, religion, sport, artistic pursuits, and so on. Furthermore, the question of what should and what should not count as meaningful work will always be disputed in a liberal democracy. But not only liberal theories appeal to individual autonomy and value pluralism within modern liberal democracies to argue against a normative theory of meaningful work: theories of recognition employ the same sort of arguments with the same results. Value pluralism and the difficulty to neutrally, uncontestedly conceptualize meaningful work lead to the conviction that a normative theory of the content of work is neither necessary nor feasible. Adapted from the source document.

Must privacy and freedom of expression conflict? To witness recent debates in Britain, you might think so. Anything other than self-regulation by the press is met by howls of anguish from journalists across the political spectrum, to the effect that efforts to protect people's privacy will threaten press freedom, promote self-censorship and prevent the press from fulfilling its vital function of informing the public and keeping a watchful eye on the activities and antics of the powerful.[Brown, 2009, 13 January]1 Effective protections for privacy, from such a perspective, inevitably pose a threat to democratic government via the constraints that they place on the press.