ABSTRACT
Our concepts of privacy change constantly in response to their technological and therefore their social contexts. The valorization of privacy is thus an historical construct shaped through the evolution of media technologies, usage forms, and practices. In this second decade of the twenty-first century, the sweeping power of national governments to legislate and to take unilateral privacy-invasive measures on a grand scale in the guise of homeland security has emerged as emblematic of a big data surveillance and privacy zeitgeist. New locative media privacy is inevitably shaped by the contested platform politics of vested political, economic-technological, and social interests.
