Privacy as a term remains necessary but insufficient against data exploitation.
Evidence
Arguing that privacy remains a necessary term is not meant here to imply that it is sufficient to address many of the forms of exploitation through data that occur, which is why we spend time on the notion of autonomy and its basic preconditions. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1167
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the authors’ stance that ‘privacy’ is a necessary-but-not-sufficient concept, positioning it against critics who reject it outright.
- XREF: Connects to the broader attention/surveillance literature where privacy critiques often hinge on whether the concept suffices given data extraction. — connects to: General data-protection frameworks cannot challenge extractive data economies. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 555; Legitimate data use requires respect for the human subjects the data refers to — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 599; Privacy remains indispensable despite data colonialism’s corrosive effects — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 546 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Privacy remains indispensable despite data colonialism’s corrosive effects
#qualifies(0.95) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 546 - Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic
#qualifies(0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601 - Privacy law’s negative liberty tradition conflicts with capitalism’s data extraction drive.
#complicates(0.82) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 549