Behind the Cloud

Based on a wealth of case studies, this book develops a typology of privacy in the history of ideas and shows in which areas of life big data has already found its way.
Thoughts are free - but they are no longer secret. Today, our data and thoughts are stored behind the cloud - where we ourselves can no longer look. Our information is entrusted to the Internet forever, collected with and without our consent. "Privacy is dead" as Mark Zuckerberg put it. But how could it come to this? And if everyone knows everything: What then is still private today, and are there any secrets at all?
With an epilogue on privacy from a legal perspective by Bertil Cottier.

How transparent are we actually? A philosophical consideration of privacy in the digital age A smart look at digital common knowledge

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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).

Inhalt
Introduction: The reverse side of the cloud.- Part 1: The secret private - introduction and derivation.- "Privacy is dead": How could it come to this?- Part 2: Symptoms of the structural change of the private.- Symptoms of an immanent digital omniscience.- Part 3: Theory of the structural change of the private.- Functional systematics of the structural change of the private.- Summary of the theory or: Thoughts are free - but no longer secret.- Conclusions.- Outlook: Digital authenticity - an immersive consumer experience.