Famous papers

Papers describing privacy issues

1. “Privacy is a value so complex, so entangled in competing and contradictory dimensions, so engorged with various and distinct meanings, that I sometimes despair whether it can be usefully addressed at all.” (Post, 2001)

2. “Few values so fundamental to society as privacy have been left so undefined in social theory or have been the subject of such vague and confused writing by social scientists.” (Westin, 1967)

3. “The most striking thing about the right to privacy is that nobody seems to have any very clear idea what it is.” (Thomson, 1975)

4. “…a concept in disarray.” (Solove, 2008)