TY - JOUR
T1 - Privacy Rights, and Why Negative Control is Not a Dead End
T2 - A Reply to Munch and Lundgren
AU - Mainz, Jakob Thrane
AU - Uhrenfeldt, Rasmus
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Lauritz Munch and Björn Lundgren have recently replied to a paper published by us in this journal. In our original paper, we defended a novel version of the so-called ‘control theory’ of the moral right to privacy. We argued that control theorists should define ‘control’ as what we coined ‘Negative Control’. Munch and Lundgren have recently provided a range of interesting and challenging objections to our view. Independently of each other, they give almost identical counterexamples to our definition of Negative Control. In this comment, we show that while the counterexamples are genuine counterexamples, they do not force us to abandon the idea of Negative Control. Furthermore, we reply to two additional objections raised by Lundgren. One of these replies involves giving a new account of what the relation is between the concept of privacy and the right to privacy.
AB - Lauritz Munch and Björn Lundgren have recently replied to a paper published by us in this journal. In our original paper, we defended a novel version of the so-called ‘control theory’ of the moral right to privacy. We argued that control theorists should define ‘control’ as what we coined ‘Negative Control’. Munch and Lundgren have recently provided a range of interesting and challenging objections to our view. Independently of each other, they give almost identical counterexamples to our definition of Negative Control. In this comment, we show that while the counterexamples are genuine counterexamples, they do not force us to abandon the idea of Negative Control. Furthermore, we reply to two additional objections raised by Lundgren. One of these replies involves giving a new account of what the relation is between the concept of privacy and the right to privacy.
KW - Privatliv
KW - Retten til privatliv
U2 - 10.1007/s11158-021-09524-1
DO - 10.1007/s11158-021-09524-1
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 1356-4765
VL - 28
SP - 391
EP - 400
JO - Res Publica
JF - Res Publica
ER -