1984: "...seeing privacy merely as a symptom of an informational deficiency..."

Front Genet. 2013 Sep 19;4:172. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00172.

From omics and etics to policy and ethics: regulating evolution.

Hoppe N.

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Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Leibniz Universität Hannover Hannover, Germany

"This increase in density and availability of meaningful information leads to a perceivable public trend in seeing privacy merely as a symptom of an informational deficiency, i.e., there is a plausible argument that the perceived explosion in information sharing online may well lead to a desensitization, rather than an increased fear for privacy. At the same time, regulatory sciences and the disciplines looking at ethical, legal, and social implications of this type of technology doggedly adhere to their time-honored, heterogeneous and siloed methodological traditions: bar some notable exceptions, lawyers speak to lawyers, ethicists speak to ethicists, sociologists speak to sociologists. Where debate transcends disciplinary boundaries, it is often received with suspicion of the other discipline's (or country's) scholarly conventions, language, and style."