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Title
Behind the cloud : a theory of the private without secrecy / Peter Seele, Lucas Zapf.
Uniform Title
Rückseite der Cloud. English
ISBN
9783662645024 (electronic bk.)
3662645025 (electronic bk.)
9783662645017
3662645017
Published
Berlin : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Language Note
Translated from German.
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 195 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-662-64502-4 doi
Call Number
QA76.585 .S4413 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
004.67/82
Summary
Our thoughts are free - but they are no longer secret. Today, our data is automatically stored and analyzed by algorithms behind the cloud - where we no longer have control over our data. Our most private and secret information is entrusted to the internet and permanently collected, stacked and linked to our digital twins. With and without our consent. "Privacy is dead", as Mark Zuckerberg put it. How could it come to this? And, if everyone knows everything: what is still private today, and are there any personal secrets at all when the "gods" behind the cloud know us better than our friends and family? The book uses a wealth of case studies (e.g. cryptocurrencies, journalism, digital traces of sexual preferences) to develop a typology of privacy in the history of ideas and shows the areas of life in which big data and artificial intelligence have already made inroads. This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition Die Ruckseite der Cloud by Peter Seele and Lucas Zapf, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. The Authors Peter Seele is Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Italian Switzerland, USI Lugano, trained as a philosopher and economist. Twitter: @PeterSeele Lucas Zapf is a postdoctoral researcher, religious economist, and interdisciplinary humanities scholar working at the University of Basel and the University of Applied Sciences, Brugg (CH). Also by the authors: '"Der Markt" existiert nicht. Aufklarung gegen die Marktvergotterung' ('"The Market" Doesn't Exist. Enlightenment against the Deification of the Market') (2017).
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Introduction: Behind the cloud
Part I. The secret private : introduction and derivation. "Privacy is dead" : how could it come to this?
Part II. Symptoms of the structural change of the private
Showcasing digital omniscience in everyday life
Part III. Theory of a structural change of the private
The private sphere changes : a consequence of digitalization
Summary: Thoughts in a digital world : free, but no longer secret
Conclusions: Our secrets behind the cloud
Outlook: Digital authenticity : immersive consumption without secrets
From ethical considerations to proposed legal solutions : an afterword by Bertil Cottier.