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  1. Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World.Daniel Susser, Beate Roessler & Helen Nissenbaum - 2019 - Georgetown Law Technology Review 4:1-45.
    Privacy and surveillance scholars increasingly worry that data collectors can use the information they gather about our behaviors, preferences, interests, incomes, and so on to manipulate us. Yet what it means, exactly, to manipulate someone, and how we might systematically distinguish cases of manipulation from other forms of influence—such as persuasion and coercion—has not been thoroughly enough explored in light of the unprecedented capacities that information technologies and digital media enable. In this paper, we develop a definition of manipulation that (...)
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  2. Technology, autonomy, and manipulation.Daniel Susser, Beate Roessler & Helen Nissenbaum - 2019 - Internet Policy Review 8 (2).
    Since 2016, when the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal began to emerge, public concern has grown around the threat of “online manipulation”. While these worries are familiar to privacy researchers, this paper aims to make them more salient to policymakers — first, by defining “online manipulation”, thus enabling identification of manipulative practices; and second, by drawing attention to the specific harms online manipulation threatens. We argue that online manipulation is the use of information technology to covertly influence another person’s decision-making, by targeting (...)
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  3. Accountability in a computerized society.Helen Nissenbaum - 1996 - Science and Engineering Ethics 2 (1):25-42.
    This essay warns of eroding accountability in computerized societies. It argues that assumptions about computing and features of situations in which computers are produced create barriers to accountability. Drawing on philosophical analyses of moral blame and responsibility, four barriers are identified: 1) the problem of many hands, 2) the problem of bugs, 3) blaming the computer, and 4) software ownership without liability. The paper concludes with ideas on how to reverse this trend.
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    Embodying values in technology: Theory and practice.Mary Flanagan, Daniel Howe & Helen Nissenbaum - 2008 - In M. J. van den Joven & J. Weckert (eds.), Information Technology and Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. pp. 322--353.
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    Respecting Context to Protect Privacy: Why Meaning Matters.Helen Nissenbaum - 2018 - Science and Engineering Ethics 24 (3):831-852.
    In February 2012, the Obama White House endorsed a Privacy Bill of Rights, comprising seven principles. The third, “Respect for Context,” is explained as the expectation that “companies will collect, use, and disclose personal data in ways that are consistent with the context in which consumers provide the data.” One can anticipate the contested interpretations of this principle as parties representing diverse interests vie to make theirs the authoritative one. In the paper I will discuss three possibilities and explain why (...)
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    Commons-based Peer production and virtue.Yochai Benkler & Helen Nissenbaum - 2006 - Journal of Political Philosophy 14 (4):394–419.
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  7. Toward an approach to privacy in public: Challenges of information technology.Helen Nissenbaum - 1997 - Ethics and Behavior 7 (3):207 – 219.
    This article highlights a contemporary privacy problem that falls outside the scope of dominant theoretical approaches. Although these approaches emphasize the connection between privacy and a protected personal (or intimate) sphere, many individuals perceive a threat to privacy in the widespread collection of information even in realms normally considered "public". In identifying and describing the problem of privacy in public, this article is preliminary work in a larger effort to map out future theoretical directions.
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    Contextual Integrity Up and Down the Data Food Chain.Helen Nissenbaum - 2019 - Theoretical Inquiries in Law 20 (1):221-256.
    According to the theory of contextual integrity (CI), privacy norms prescribe information flows with reference to five parameters — sender, recipient, subject, information type, and transmission principle. Because privacy is grasped contextually (e.g., health, education, civic life, etc.), the values of these parameters range over contextually meaningful ontologies — of information types (or topics) and actors (subjects, senders, and recipients), in contextually defined capacities. As an alternative to predominant approaches to privacy, which were ineffective against novel information practices enabled by (...)
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    Political and ethical perspectives on data obfuscation.Finn Brunton & Helen Nissenbaum - 2013 - In Mireille Hildebrandt & Katja de Vries (eds.), Privacy, due process and the computational turn. Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York: Routledge. pp. 171.
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    Where computer security meets national security.Helen Nissenbaum - 2005 - Ethics and Information Technology 7 (2):61-73.
    This paper identifies two conceptions of security in contemporary concerns over the vulnerability of computers and networks to hostile attack. One is derived from individual-focused conceptions of computer security developed in computer science and engineering. The other is informed by the concerns of national security agencies of government as well as those of corporate intellectual property owners. A comparative evaluation of these two conceptions utilizes the theoretical construct of “securitization,”developed by the Copenhagen School of International Relations.
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    The cutting edge.Helen Nissenbaum - 1998 - Acm Sigcas Computers and Society 28 (1):38-39.
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  12. Protecting privacy in an information age: The problem of privacy in public. [REVIEW]Helen Nissenbaum - 1998 - Law and Philosophy 17 (s 5-6):559-596.
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  13. Can Trust be Secured Online? A theoretical perspective.Helen Nissenbaum - 1999 - Etica E Politica 1 (2).
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    The Internet in Public Life.William A. Galston, Thomas C. Hilde, Lucas D. Introna, Peter Levine, Eric M. Uslaner, Helen Nissenbaum & Robert Wachbroit - 2004 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    The spread of new information and communications technologies during the past two decades has helped reshape civic associations, political communities, and global relations. In the midst of the information revolution, we find that the speed of this technology-driven change has outpaced our understanding of its social and ethical effects. The moral dimensions of this new technology and its effects on social bonds need to be questioned and scrutinized: Should the Internet be understood as a new form of public space and (...)
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    Editorial.Helen Nissenbaum - 1999 - Ethics and Information Technology 1 (3):171-172.
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    Editorial.Helen Nissenbaum - 2001 - Ethics and Information Technology 2 (4):171-172.
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    Emotion and Focus.Helen Nissenbaum - 1986 - Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications.
    The author's aim to discover the conception of emotion that is couched in a commonsense view of the world and is reflected in ordinary discourse.
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  18. The Puzzle of Priority: Devising New Norms and Conventions in Research for the Context of Electronic Publication.Helen Nissenbaum - 1999 - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 1 (1).
     
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