#📓 #📚 #🟠 # Privacy Isn't Everything ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Nov 28, 2021</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 03, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[ethics]] **Authors:** [[Anita Allen]] **Citation:** Allen, A. (2005). Privacy Isn’t Everything. In A. D. Moore (Ed.), _Information ethics: Privacy, property, and power_ (pp. 398–413). University of Washington Press. --- # Summary Allen argues for the importance of accountability, even in the face of privacy issues. She highlights both the benefits and risks of accountability. # Notes #### p. 399 - Privacy and accountability are both good for individuals and society. > Privacy and accountability each in their own way render us more fit for valued forms of social participation. ([Allen 2005:399](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=2)) > some accountability demands that relate to archetypical "private" and "personal" realms are legitimate ([Allen 2005:399](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=2)) #### p. 400 - Political philosophies of many are based on [[John Stuart Mills]]'s essay *On Liberty.* > "the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but hirnself." - quote from John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty ([Allen 2005:400](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=3)) *([note on p.400](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=3))* #### p. 401- There's no separation of public and private when it comes to accountability. *([note on p.401](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=4))* #### p. 401 - Being held accountable to standards that do not meet our own moral, ethical, or religious standards feels unjust. *([note on p.401](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=4))* #### p. 407 - John Stuart Mill argued that "thought, discussion, and actions that are not harmful to others should be free." *([note on p.407](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=10))* > Mill argued that moral justice requires laws and other rules, practices, and institutions that maximize aggregate long run happiness or "utility." ([Allen 2005:407](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=10)) Each person is the best judge of what will promote his own utility. *([note on p.407](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=10))* #### p. 408 - Mill argued that, as a general rule, a just government or society should only prohibit conduct that harms others. *([note on p.408](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=11))* Mills argued there should be limits on requirements that individuals should share or justify thoughts or actions that don't harm others. *([note on p.408](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=11))* Mill believed individuals and society benefit from diversity, so we should not limit thought and discussion to what is presumed to be true or good. *([note on p.408](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=11))* > sacred truths tend to become moribund, unthinking dogma, unless perpetually revitalized by the challenge of dissent and falsehood.SO ([Allen 2005:408](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=11)) Mill also believed people should be able act in whatever way they wanted as long as it did not cause harm to others. *([note on p.408](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=11))* #### p. 410 - Accountability is protective and ennobling when it is reciprocal and egalitarian. *([note on p.410](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/MIEQZ889?page=13))* ## My Questions & Thoughts --- # Other References