Technology and privacy: the new landscape
Technology and privacy: the new landscape
Database nation: the death of privacy in the 21st century
Database nation: the death of privacy in the 21st century
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Informational privacy and moral values
Ethics and Information Technology
The moral value of informational privacy in cyberspace
Ethics and Information Technology
Technology and ethical dilemmas in a medical setting: Privacy, professional autonomy, life and death
Ethics and Information Technology
Genomic Research and Data-Mining Technology: Implications for Personal Privacy and Informed Consent
Ethics and Information Technology
Attribution of knowledge to artificial agents and their principals
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Content cloaking: preserving privacy with Google Docs and other web applications
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Software agents as boundary objects
AICOL'11 Proceedings of the 25th IVR Congress conference on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems: models and ethical challenges for legal systems, legal language and legal ontologies, argumentation and software agents
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We investigate legal and philosophical notions of privacy in the context of artificial agents. Our analysis utilizes a normative account of privacy that defends its value and the extent to which it should be protected: privacy is treated as an interest with moral value, to supplement the legal claim that privacy is a legal right worthy of protection by society and the law. We argue that the fact that the only entity to access my personal data (such as email) is an artificial agent is irrelevant to whether a breach of privacy has occurred. What is relevant are the capacities of the agent: what the agent is both able and empowered to do with that information. We show how concepts of legal agency and attribution of knowledge gained by agents to their principals are crucial to understanding whether a violation of privacy has occurred when artificial agents access users' personal data. As natural language processing and semantic extraction used in artificial agents become increasingly sophisticated, so the corporations that deploy those agents will be more likely to be attributed with knowledge of their users' personal information, thus triggering significant potential legal liabilities.