Privacy is fundamentally about decision rights over self-disclosure

Evidence

This power is a crucial illustration of the difference between “decision rights” and “privacy.” Decision rights confer the power to choose whether to keep something secret or to share it. One can choose the degree of privacy or transparency for each situation. US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas articulated this view of privacy in 1967: “Privacy involves the choice of the individual to disclose or to reveal what he believes, what he thinks, what he possesses.…” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 283

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines privacy as decision rights—the power to choose what to disclose or keep secret—drawing on Justice Douglas’s 1967 articulation.
• SEED: The privacy-as-decision-rights frame could anchor an essay on how tech companies have reframed the privacy debate as one of ‘data control’ rather than of power over disclosure.
• XREF: connects to: Privacy breaches are better framed as choices for publicity than as naive disclosure. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 604; Openness advocacy assumes privileges that make self-disclosure safe only for some — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 620; Even the most public online selves are managed through deliberate disclosure choices — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 630 (+5 more)