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| | The Political Economy of Privacy |
 | | In contrast to the view that privacy should be seen as a democratic right that the state has a duty to protect through regulatory policy, others see the privacy of personal information as an inherently individual good that should only be protected through individual demands and organizational responses within the context of a market society. |
 | | We see databases not as an invasion of privacy, as a threat to a centered individual, but as the multiplication of the individual, the constitution of an additional self, one that may be acted upon to the detriment of the "real" self without the "real" self ever being aware of what is happening. |
 | | To study the "politics" of privacy, as I have discovered, requires a certain, though inevitably superficial, familiarity with the conversations at these "separate tables." In conclusion, however, I want to suggest some of the weaknesses of the way we debate the politics of privacy, and suggest ways that political science might invigorate the discourse. |
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