Inappropriate information sharing can lead to privacy violations and cause real harm. Nevertheless, these “[harms remain] invisible, and [are exploited] in the information economy [continuing to] proliferate,” because “the courts and regulators perceive privacy interferences solely through the lens of monetary losses” (Cofone 2023).

Post for the Balkinization Symposium on Ignacio Cofone, The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy Cambridge University Press (2023).

GKC-CI: A Unifying Framework for Contextual Norms and Information Governance

Designing technology that is attuned to ethical privacy considerations is a multifaceted challenge that requires a detailed understanding of the interplay between societal privacy norms, governance factors, and information handling practices in specific contexts. A grounding theoretical framework is needed to define the “right” research questions to untangle these interconnected factors across empirical studies from different disciplines.

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