Schedule and readings

PART I

1. Concept and concepts (Thursday, October 27)
• Foucault, Michel. What is Enlightenment?, in: The Foucault Reader, by P. Rabinow, 32-50. Pantheon Books, 1984.
• Orrù, Elisa, Privacy: Scepticism, Normative Approaches and Legal Protection. A Review of the Theoretical Debate and a Discussion of Recent Developments in the EU, in: DPCE online, 52 (2022) 2, 779-800.


A) WHAT IS PRIVACY?

2. The roots of the concept of privacy in modern political philosophy (Friday, October 28)
• Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan, edited by Tuck, Richard, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1991, Ch. XVII (Of Commonwealth) and XXII (Of Systems Subject, Political, and Private), p. 117-121, 155-165.
• Mill, John Stuart, J. S. Mill’s On liberty in Focus, edited by Gray, John London: Routledge 1991, Ch. I (Introductory), p. 23-35.

Additional readings (optional):
• Mill, John Stuart, J. S. Mill’s On liberty in Focus, edited by Gray, John London: Routledge 1991, Ch. III (On Individuality) and IV (Of the Limits to the Authority of Society Over the Individual), p. 72-89, 90-107.

3. Privacy: definitions & contestations (Thursday, November 3)
• Warren, Samuel D., Brandeis, Louis D., The right to privacy [the implicit made explicit], in: Schoeman, Ferdinand David (ed. by), Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: An Anthology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1984, 75–103.
• Thomson, Judith Jarvis, The Right to Privacy, in: Philosophy & Public Affairs, 4/4, 1975, 295–314.


4. Privacy as Contextual Integrity (Friday, November 4)
• Nissenbaum, Helen Fay, Privacy as Contextual Integrity, in: Washington Law Review, 79, 2004, 119-158 (excluding section II, 125-136).

Additional readings (optional)
• Solove, Daniel, “I’ve Got Nothing to Hide” and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy, in: San Diego Law Review, 44, 2007, 745-772.


B) WHY IS PRIVACY IMPORTANT?

5. The importance of privacy for democracy (Thursday, November 10)
• Rouvroy, Antoinette, Poullet, Yves, The Right to Informational Self-Determination and the Value of Self-Development: Reassessing the Importance of Privacy for Democracy, in: Gutwirth, Serge (ed. by), Reinventing data protection? Berlin: Springer 2009, p. 45-76.

Additional readings (optional)
• Gutwirth, Serge, De Hert, Paul, Privacy, data protection and law enforcement. Opacity of the individual and transparency of power, in: Claes, Erik, Duff, Antony, Gutwirth, Serge (ed. by), Privacy and the criminal law. Antwerp: Intersentia 2006, 61–104.
• Raab, Charles D., Privacy, Social Values and the Public Interest, in: Politik und die Regulierung von Information’ [‘Politics and the Regulation of Information’], Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 46, 2012, 129–151.

6. Privacy and gender (Friday, November 11)
• Rössler, Beate, Gender and Privacy. A Critique of the Liberal Tradition, in: Rössler, Beate (Hg.), Privacies: philosophical evaluations. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press 2004 (Cultural memory in the present), 52–72.
• Allen, Anita, "Gender and Privacy in Cyberspace", 52 Stan. L. Rev. 1175, 2000.


Additional readings (optional)
• Poovey, M. (1992). The abortion question and the death of man. In: Judith Butler & Joan Wallach Scott (eds.), Feminists Theorize the Political. Routledge. 239-256.


C) SURVEILLANCE AND THE PRIVATION OF PRIVACY

7. Surveillance, self-surveillance and control: the Panopticon and beyond (Thursday, November 17)
• Foucault, Michel, Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison. New York, Alexandria, VA: Vintage Books, Alexander Street Press, 1979, “Panopticisms”, p. 195-229.
• Deleuze, Gilles. Postscript on the Societies of Control, in: October, 59, 1992, 3–7.


Additional readings (optional):
• Haggerty, Kevin D., Tear down the walls: on demolishing the panopticon, in: Lyon, David (ed. by), Theorizing surveillance: the panopticon and beyond. Cullompton: Willan, 2009, 23–45.


8. Total domination: the negation of the private (Friday, November 18)
• Arendt, Hannah, The Origins of Totalitarianism. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966, chap. 13 “Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government”, 460-479.

Additional readings (optional):
• Arendt, Hannah, The human condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1998, Ch. II, p. 22-78.
• Benhabib, S., Feminist theory and Hannah Arendt’s concept of public space, in: History of the Human Sciences, 6/2, 1993, 97–114.
• Los, Maria, The Technologies of Total Domination, in: Surveillance & Society, 2/1, 2004, 15-38.




9. Surveillance today (Thursday, November 24)
• Zuboff, Shoshana, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: PublicAffairs 2019, chap. 3.


Additional readings (optional):
• Los, Maria, Looking into the future: surveillance, globalization and the totalitarian potential, in: Lyon, David (ed. by), Theorizing surveillance: the panopticon and beyond. Cullompton: Willan 2009, 69–94.

• Elmer, Greg, Panopticon-discipline-control, in: Ball, Kirstie, Haggerty, Kevin D., Lyon, David (ed. by), Routledge handbook of surveillance studies. London: Routledge 2012, 21–29.

10. Surveillance today: open topic (Friday, November 25)

D) PRACTICES OF DATA PROTECTION AND SURVEILLANCE IN EUROPE

11. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the PNR Directive (Thursday, December 1)
• Articles GDPR, especially Chapter 2 (Art. 5-11), Chapter 3 (Art. 12-23), Article 25 and Chapter 5 (Art. 44-50): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32016R0679&from=EN
• Orrù, Elisa, The European PNR framework and the changing landscape of EU-security, in: Verfassungsblog, 21. December 2021, https://verfassungsblog.de/os3-pnr/
• Court of Justice of the European Union, PRESS RELEASE No 105/22, Luxembourg, 21 June 2022, Judgment of the Court in Case C-817/19 | Ligue des droits humains, https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2022-06/cp220105en.pdf


12. Workshop: privacy in practice and conclusion (Friday, December 2)