Information Privacy in a Network Society:Decision Making Amidst Constant Change

網路社會中的資訊隱私:不斷變遷中的決定

本文想探討為什麼網路上的隱私保障如此沒有效率,但一般人卻不對此感到憤怒,以及我們將來該如何處理這種狀況。本文主張有兩個主要的隱私體制導致目前過份籠統的隱私政策,因為它們低估了當代資訊與通訊科技所帶來的社會實質變化。另一方面,提倡隱私權者也忽略了現代人既生活在網路社會,卻又希望控制個人資訊的矛盾關係。由於長遠的解決方案無法在短時間內產生,本文主張我們需要更多耐心。在找到真實解決方案之前,我們需要更多促進共識的對話。而為了促進這些論述,我們需要更精緻的調整三種憲法權力的平衡。

This article sets out to answer why online privacy protection has been largely ineffective so far, why average people have not been outraged by such failure, and what we should do going forward. The author argues that the two leading privacy regimes in the world have managed to induce over-sweeping privacy policies, for they have underestimated the substantial social change brought about by modern information and communications technologies. Privacy advocates on the other hand have overlooked the ambivalent relationship between modern people who live in a network society and their desire to savor some control over personal information. This article argues for more patience because long-term solutions cannot be built on quick sand. Before finding real solutions we need more consensus-building dialogues, and to facilitate such discourse we need a little fine-tuning on the balance among the three constitutional powers.本文想探討為什麼網路上的隱私保障如此沒有效率,但一般人卻不對此感到憤怒,以及我們將來該如何處理這種狀況。本文主張有兩個主要的隱私體制導致目前過份籠統的隱私政策,因為它們低估了當代資訊與通訊科技所帶來的社會實質變化。另一方面,提倡隱私權者也忽略了現代人既生活在網路社會,卻又希望控制個人資訊的矛盾關係。由於長遠的解決方案無法在短時間內產生,本文主張我們需要更多耐心。在找到真實解決方案之前,我們需要更多促進共識的對話。而為了促進這些論述,我們需要更精緻的調整三種憲法權力的平衡。