The HBS hosts discuss where we should draw the boundaries of our secret lives. Is privacy dead?

In Episode 11, Leigh, Ammon, and Shannon look at privacy. What is privacy? Is privacy “dead”? Is it an outdated concept? Is privacy separable from the (capitalist) notion of private property? The hosts also explore how digital privacy is similar to/different from meatspace privacy? Is either more real, more important, or more difficult to defend? How is privacy related to transparency? Is one more important than the other? Finally, the hosts hypothesize the pros and cons of a world with zero privacy. 

For more on this issue, click below:

• How much data does Facebook keep on your browsing history? Zamaan Quereshi dared to find out.  
• Is privacy dead? Nir Kshetri and Joanna F. DeFranco investigate the creation of “a data market based on an ethically questionable foundation”
• Surveillance Capitalism is alive and well in Gilad Edelman’s article in Wired Magazine.
• 10 Reasons why Privacy rights are important.
• Snigel asks, What Google’s Privacy Sandbox?
• L. M. Sacasas writes about “Personal Panopticons” for Real Life Magazine.
• “I read all the small print on the internet and it made me want to die,” by Alex Hern
• Rick Moody tells a harrowing tale of “Seven Years of Identity Theft.”
• What is Spyware and how does it work? Shaant Minhas explains it.
• Is privacy protected in the Constitution?
• Mark MacCarthy argues that data should not be seen as personal property to be brokered by individuals. 
• Bob Gelman explores the question of who owns your medical information.
• Zach at The Vim blog discusses the mistaken ontology of drawing a hard distinction between the online and meat space worlds.
• Ian Bogost on “privacy nihilism for The Atlantic.”
• Leonard Cohen invites us to consider the meaning of the term secret life.