ABSTRACT
This project outlines how classical philosophy and legal theory inform a twenty-first century understanding of privacy, particularly where that concept intersects with journalism, the mass media and digital technologies. It accepts that law and ethics are foundational to the concept, thus eschewing Immanuel Kant’s view that law and ethics are entirely separate endeavors. The chapter employs feminist epistemology to connect both domains to the role that technology now plays in how people and the machines that they program and control consider privacy. By triangulating the “issue” of privacy in this way, this effort proposes additional theorizing about how privacy might be articulated and how both responsibility and accountability for that conceptualization be understood at the institutional but non-state level.
