We argue that privacy's political strength rests in its “economic dark matter” (p. 27)—its role in protecting individual autonomy, freedom, dignity, fairness, the collective value of privacy and the integrity of social life. Where privacy construed as diffuse, atomistic interests in informational control often fails to motivate political action, privacy as constitutive of society and in service of “important [social] functions” succeeds. While Acquisti et al correctly describe the state of our current political economy as having left no space for privacy as a lived, intuitive, human practice, we believe those same conditions are fostering a resurgence of interest in privacy as a means to address the wealth of harms these conditions produce. We close with a call for regulatory approaches that develop institutions, tools, and actors that can iteratively shape the corporate, social, and political landscape to protect the collective, public, and social value of privacy in the public interest.

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隐私的肥沃黑暗事物呈现出黑暗的监视模式

我们认为，隐私的政治优势在于其“经济暗物质”（第27页），它在保护个人自主权，自由，尊严，公平，隐私的集体价值和社会生活的完整性方面发挥着作用。在隐私被解释为分散的情况下，信息控制中的原子性利益常常无法激发政治行动，而作为社会的组成部分和服务于“重要[社会]功能”的隐私获得成功。尽管Acquisti等人正确地描述了我们当前的政治经济状况，认为这是一种生活，直观，人类的实践，没有留下隐私的空间，但我们认为，这些相同的条件正在促使人们对隐私的兴趣重新兴起，以此作为解决财富的手段。危害这些条件产生。在结束时，我们呼吁采取监管措施，以开发机构，工具，