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Scott Skinner-Thompson presents a vivid account of how privacy can serve as a tool of resistance and equality worthy of constitutional protection. Examining how the lives of minority groups are uniquely harmed by surveillance regimes, this book shows how even limited privacy can enhance lives at the margins in material ways.
List of contents
Introduction; 1. No privacy in public = no privacy for the precarious; 2. Performative privacy in theory and practice; 3. Performative privacy's payoffs; 4. Containing corporate and privatized surveillance; 5. Outing privacy as anti-subordination; 6. Equal protection privacy; Conclusion.
About the author
Scott Skinner-Thompson is an Associate Professor at Colorado Law School, where he researches constitutional law, civil rights, and privacy law, with a particular focus on LGBTQ and HIV issues. He is the editor of AIDS and the Law (5th ed., 2016; 6th ed. 2020), one of the leading resources in the field. His work has also appeared in Slate, Salon, and The New Republic. In 2014, he was selected as one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 by the National LGBT Bar Association.
Summary
Scott Skinner-Thompson presents a vivid account of how privacy can serve as a tool of resistance and equality worthy of constitutional protection. Examining how the lives of minority groups are uniquely harmed by surveillance regimes, this book shows how even limited privacy can enhance lives at the margins in material ways.
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'In a world in which privacy has been privatized, the marginalized and precarious in society need it more than ever. Why then has privacy received such limited protection by courts and lawmakers? In his signature style, Scott Skinner-Thompson brilliantly wrestles with this critical question and proposes insightful ways to redress the problem, both as a legal and discursive matter. Privacy at the Margins offers a roadmap to transform privacy from an individualistic right into an anti-oppression legal tool. This is a crucial text for our new digital age and for anyone interested in surveillance, anti-subordination, justice, and privacy today.' Bernard E. Harcourt, author of Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age and Critique and Praxis, and Isidore and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
