Stanford CIS

Two Reasons Why Extreme Social Surveillance Doesn't Replace Privacy

By Woodrow Hartzog on

More than a few people maintain that if we all knew everything about each other, the world would be a better place. The total transparency argument takes many forms, and shades of it can be seen in the surveillance policy and discourse that holds that “more information is always better than less information,” and information asymmetries should always be remedied by more disclosure and surveillance, not less.

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