The philosopher I choose is Alan
Westin.
Westin would agree with the FCC's
proposal to require ISPs to first obtain the customers' permission
before using and sharing their data. A prediction that he made is
that "Consumer marketing will move inexorably to a
permission-based system, in which consumers exercise their choices as
to how they are marketed to, in a mixture of opt-in and opt-out
procedures based on the sensitivity of the data "
He believes that there are four states
of individual privacy. They are solitude, intimacy, anonymity and
reserve.
"Such changing personal needs and
choices about self-revelation are what make privacy such a complex
condition, and a matter of personal choice. The importance of that
right to choose, both to the individual's self-development and to the
exercise of responsible citizenship, makes the claim to privacy a
fundamental part of civil liberty in democratic society "
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