Introduction

It was the beginning of 2010 when I (Bart) first joined the University of Amsterdam as a privacy researcher. What struck me immediately were two things: how interdisciplinary the topic of privacy was and how limited the interaction was between the different fields, disciplines, and researchers from the various faculties at the university. Out of personal interest and a desire to map the field of privacy, I decided to invite for coffee and formally interview over 50 colleagues about their privacy research. It brought me to the fields of medicine, anthropology, economy, political science, informatics, philosophy, law, sociology, communication science, psychology, and a couple more.