Thursday November 13 2008 / Citizenship
Socrates Lecture: The value of privacy
The total of measures that violate our privacy is a cause for alarm. Are they necessary for our safety or an unnecessary infringement?
New technologies make it possible to save and connect all kinds of personal details. Our government likes to use them, sometimes to increase our safety and sometimes to make the government more efficient. Our personal details are big business. While the citizen becomes more visible for the government, the government is less visible for the citizen.
Do we need to worry about the way the government deals with the protection of our personal sphere? Is it problematic to be watched in the name of security? What is the value and meaning of privacy? Beate Roessler (Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and Socrates Professor for the Foundations of Humanism at Leiden University) and Britta Böhler (lawyer and member of the Senate of the Dutch Parliament) will give the Socrates Lecture on this subject.
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