Privacy at the Margins

Privacy can function as an expressive, anti-subordination tool of resistance that is worthy of constitutional protection.

Scott Skinner-Thompson (Author)

9781316632635, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 November 2020

250 pages
15 x 23 x 1 cm, 0.37 kg

'The text is approachable and reaches across departments from ethnic studies to sociology to legal studies. Issues of ethnicity, religion, LGTBQIA+, and other marginalized communities are discussed and treated with respect throughout the book. Skinner-Thompson argues for more privacy for all, especially marginalized communities, in a respectful and caring manner … Recommended.' J. M. Keller-Aschenbach, CHOICE

Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In Privacy at the Margins, Scott Skinner-Thompson highlights why privacy is of acute importance for marginalized groups. He explains how privacy can serve as a form of expressive resistance to government and corporate surveillance regimes - furthering equality goals - and demonstrates why efforts undertaken by vulnerable groups (queer folks, women, and racial and religious minorities) to protect their privacy should be entitled to constitutional protection under the First Amendment and related equality provisions. By examining the ways even limited privacy can enrich and enhance our lives at the margins in material ways, this work shows how privacy can be transformed from a liberal affectation to a legal tool of liberation from oppression.

Introduction
1. No privacy in public = no privacy for the precarious
2. Performative privacy in theory and practice
3. Performative privacy's payoffs
4. Containing corporate and privatized surveillance
5. Outing privacy as anti-subordination
6. Equal protection privacy
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Social law [LNT], Privacy law [LNDC2], Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], Gender & the law [LAQG], Law & society [LAQ], Human rights [JPVH]