Saturday, March 15, 2014

Readings for next class

Assuming the weather holds, I'd like you to be prepared to discuss the following in class:

  1. Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP) or Self-Determination Applied to Research, available online here. This is one of the few introductions to First Nations conceptions of privacy. 
  2. The paper on Cultural Privacy by Kukathas (published in the Monist), that you found as part of your reference exercise.
The theme this week is group/cultural/communal conceptions of privacy. Questions to consider include:
  1. Can there be cultural or group rights to privacy?
  2. If so, what grounds them? Michael should have mentioned that our legal tradition grounds privacy rights/interests in individualistic norms, such as autonomy, dignity (etc).
  3. What grounds the OCAP principles?
  4. What tensions will arise between individual and communal interests under OCAP? [For those who want to do a quick bit of extra reading, see Section 5.2.3 of one of my papers, found here. Be warned it is a pre-print draft, so there are some errors].
  5. Do you buy Kukathas' analysis of cultural privacy rights?

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