In today’s episode, we’ll ask ourselves: why does privacy matter? Unpacking ideas from philosophers Shoshana Zuboff, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt, we’ll look at three different answers to this question, and by the end, we’ll gain a greater understanding of what we lose when we give up our privacy.
Sources for this episode:
The Instagram Video:
@hayleybaylee
The Tik-Tok Ban:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/18/business/trump-tiktok-ban/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/article/tiktok-ban.html#:~:text=Lawmakers%20and%20regulators%20in%20the,and%20during%20the%20presidential%20election.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268701/trump-executive-order-tiktok-ban
Shoshana Zuboff:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-and-a-the-age-of-surveillance-capital.html
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capitalism/lRqrDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
Michel Foucault:
Hannah Arendt:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo29137972.html
