Balancing Privacy and Free Speech Unwanted Attention in the Age of Social Media

• Main Author: Tunick, Mark (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
• Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law
• Subjects: Privacy law; Legal ethics & professional conduct; Entertainment & media law; IT & Communications law; free speech; internet governance; legal ethics; media; privacy; social media
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests can ever be weightier than society's interest in free speech and access to information. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, and drawing on the work of political theorist Jeremy Waldron concerning toleration, the book argues that we can still have a legitimate interest in controlling the extent to which information about us is disseminated. The book begins by exploring why privacy and free speech are valuable, before developing a framework for weighing these conflicting values.　By taking up key cases in the US and Europe, and the debate about a 'right to be forgotten', Tunick discusses the potential costs of limiting free speech, and points to legal remedies and other ways to develop new social attitudes to privacy in an age of instant information sharing. This book will be of great interest to students of privacy law, legal ethics, internet governance and media law in general.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (238 p.)

ISBN

9781315763132
9781317650379
9781138689756
9781138791053

Access

Open Access