In today’s episode, we’ll ask ourselves: why does privacy matter? Unpacking ideas from philosophers Shoshana Zuboff, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt, we’ll look at three different answers to this question, and by the end, we’ll gain a greater understanding of what we lose when we give up our privacy.

Sources for this episode:

The Instagram Video: 

@hayleybaylee

The Tik-Tok Ban: 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/18/business/trump-tiktok-ban/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/article/tiktok-ban.html#:~:text=Lawmakers%20and%20regulators%20in%20the,and%20during%20the%20presidential%20election.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268701/trump-executive-order-tiktok-ban

Shoshana Zuboff:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-and-a-the-age-of-surveillance-capital.html

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capitalism/lRqrDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

Michel Foucault:

https://archive.org/details/foucault-michel-discipline-and-punish-the-birth-of-the-prison-1977-1995/page/205/mode/2up

Hannah Arendt:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo29137972.html

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