The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC's New Approach to Privacy - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC's New Approach to Privacy - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic

The brilliant New York University philosopher Helen Nissenbaum has put her approach to privacy at the center of the national agenda.


PALO ALTO -- A mile or two away from Facebook's headquarters in Silicon Valley, Helen Nissenbaum of New York University was standing in a basement on Stanford's campus explaining that the entire way that we've thought about privacy on the Internet is wrong.

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