Deborah G. Johnson - Transparency and Surveillance as Sociotechnical Accountability

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Transparency and surveillance as sociotechnical accountability : a house of

mirrors / edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Priscilla M. Regan.

pages cm. (Routledge studies in science, technology and society ; 28)

1. Electronic data processingMoral and ethical aspects. 2. Electronic

surveillanceMoral and ethical aspects. 3. Government accountability.
4. Corporate governance. 5. Information technologyMoral and ethical
aspects. 6. Democracy. I. Johnson, Deborah G., 1945 II. Regan,
Priscilla M.

QA76.9.M65T73 2014
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2014009886

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DEBORAH G. JOHNSON AND PRISCILLA M. REGAN

DEBORAH G. JOHNSON, PRISCILLA M. REGAN, AND KENT A. WAYLAND

ROBERTO ARMENGOL, DEBORAH G. JOHNSON, AND PRISCILLA M. REGAN

ROBERTO ARMENGOL

KENT A. WAYLAND

KENT A. WAYLAND, DEBORAH G. JOHNSON, AND PRISCILLA M. REGAN

ALFRED C. WEAVER

DEBORAH G. JOHNSON

PRISCILLA M. REGAN

PRISCILLA M. REGAN AND DEBORAH G. JOHNSON

The earliest thinking behind this volume dates to a paper that we wrote together in 2007 for a workshop on information privacy regulation at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) in Helsinki, Finland. Each of us had written on privacy and information technology for many years, but we had done so from our different disciplinary perspectives Deborah as a philosopher and STS (science, technology, and society) scholar and Pris as a political scientist and policy analyst. In our paper titled Privacy Theory: State of the Art and New Frontier, we tried to bring together a sociotechnical systems perspective and our concerns about privacy. The idea that fueled the paper was that privacy policy would be most effective if it took into account all aspects of the sociotechnical systems in which personal data are contained (gathered, stored, processed, and used). Privacy protection cannot be achieved simply through legislation but must take into account multiple and various aspects of the systems in which data flow, including algorithms, personnel policies, user settings, user expectations, and so on.