@article{wpcc 250, author = {Lindsay Weinberg}, title = {Rethinking Privacy: A Feminist Approach to Privacy Rights after Snowden}, volume = {12}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/250/}, issue = {3}, doi = {10.16997/wpcc.258}, abstract = {<p class="p1">Tim Cook’s message to Apple customers, regarding Apple’s refusal to provide the FBI with a backdoor to the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, typifies the corporate appropriation of privacy rights discourse. In light of this appropriation, I propose a reconsideration of the sovereign subject presupposed by privacy rights discourse through a comparative approach to the US and EU’s treatments of privacy rights. I then apply feminist theories of the non-sovereign subject, which challenge liberal democratic discourse’s construction of the subject by emphasising social interdependence. I argue that critical scholars of surveillance and the digital economy need to address the fact that the digital economy is predicated on the subject’s non-sovereignty, where individuals can be fragmented and combined into the mass collection of data. I conclude with a discussion of how the non-sovereignty of the subject under commercial surveillance could also provide the grounds for the socialized redistribution of big data profits.</p>}, month = {10}, pages = {5-20}, keywords = {user data,digital economy,surveillance,privacy,feminism}, issn = {1744-6716}, publisher={University of Westminster Press}, journal = {Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture} }