Ethics in an age of surveillance: Personal information and virtual identities

People increasingly live online, sharing publicly what might have once seemed private, but at the same time are enraged by extremes of government surveillance and the corresponding invasion into our private lives. In this enlightening work, Adam Henschke re-examines privacy and property in the age of surveillance in order to understand not only the importance of these social conventions, but also their moral relevance. By analyzing identity and information, and presenting a case for a relation between the two, he explains the moral importance of virtual identities and offers an ethically robust solution to design surveillance technologies. This book should be read by anyone interested in surveillance technology, new information technology more generally, and social concepts like privacy and property. Explores the relation between identity and personal information as a 'dyadic relation', appealing to those for whom personal information is morally important, such as students and scholars of surveillance technologies, new information technologies, and the concepts of privacy and property Henshke's case for a 'dyadic relation' justifies why personal information - particularly innocuous information - is morally important, offering a defence for 'personal information through identity' as something that people can understand as morally important Demonstrates why new surveillance technologies - their application and our use of them - are morally relevant, providing a new way to understand common moral concepts, such as privacy and property in the context of surveillance.