ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that privacy in public, which in the past has been explicitly excluded or merely neglected by many of the most highly-regarded and often-cited philosophical and legal works on privacy, is a genuine privacy interest that is worthy of study as well as protection. After surveying circumstances and activities that give rise to the problem of privacy in public, the chapter explains why predominant and influential theoretical accounts of privacy have failed to deal explicitly with it. The chapter discusses the features of contemporary surveillance practices that are central to viewing these practices as genuine concerns for any normative theory of privacy. It suggests that resources are already present in some existing theories — for example, in work by Ferdinand Schoeman and, more recently, by Judith DeCew. Existing philosophical work on privacy, though it does not address the issues, lends credibility to the idea of independent value protected by norms of contextual integrity.
