The reason I don't like "data protection" is that it's about the "fetal crouch" part of what people want; the essential meaning of "protection" is about keeping data in. A whole long history of "the rest of privacy" is about other things having to do with decisional autonomy and more, which goes beyond what the conversation has been attenuated into. Our lives are not only lived in bits.(Justice Brandeis, for one, didn't spend any time on iPads...) (I actually went to Brandeis U. :-) )

But all that said, point taken that coming up with a definition to beat all definitions is probably a futile task! Isn't that why lawyers are simply satisfied with defining terms up front in their documents and then sticking to them?...


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On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 6:47 PM, John Wunderlich <john@wunderlich.ca> wrote:
Hi;

The whole “Definition of Privacy” thing is a sinkhole of definitions, frameworks and ontologies. For example, Solove’s “Taxonomy of Privacy” identifies 16 different activities that could qualify. Privacy is individually perceived, socially constructed and varies contextually along a number of axes. In summary privacy is protean. It’s also quite uniquely an English word. This is why the Europeans refer to data protection rather than privacy. There is no word for privacy outside of English. It seems to me that it might be better to say that UMA is a tool that can, when deployed properly (for example, applying Privacy by Design as shown in Eve’s post earlier in this thread), protect personal data and let users assert some element of control over their personal information, but it is not sufficient by itself to guarantee privacy protections.

Sincerely,
John Wunderlich
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On Feb 2, 2016, at 12:07, arr@worldknowledgebank.com wrote:

Is there an uma definition of privacy?
 
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