透明社会的隐私伦理何以可能

Reimagining Privacy Ethics in the Context of a Transparent Society

透明社会是一个数据化、可视化、算法化的超交际社会。也是一个肯定社会、展示社会、加速社会、监控社会。肯定社会排斥了否定性交往,沦为“同群主义”的“应答”;展示社会让交往成为一种色情展示;加速社会让交往陷入超际交往的“肥痴”与“恣意”之中;监控社会由陌生他者监控变为熟人亲密监控。隐私是一个空间概念,隐私从根本而言是一种主体守护自身不可知性的“藏匿”,它藏于内心空间,且自身成为一个空间。透明社会的隐私伦理由“遮蔽”与“隐藏”变为“透明”与“敞开”。在透明社会里,隐私没有减少反而增加,维护隐私伦理不是指向陌生的他者,而是指向熟悉的“亲人”。交往者主动的透明化或许是透明社会隐私自我守护的手段。向熟人敞开和透明以保持真正的隐私,向陌生人敞开隐私以彰显透明换取交心与信任。这是透明社会的超际交往对隐私伦理及维护机制的根本性修正。

A transparent society epitomizes a paradigm wherein data-driven,visualized,and algorithmically mediated communication thrives.It serves as a platform for societal affirmation,exhibitionism,acceleration,and surveillance.Affirmation within this society eschews negative discourse,fostering a collective mentality.Exhibitionism transforms communication into a voyeuristic spectacle,while acceleration engenders a glut of interpersonal interactions.Surveillance,once the domain of strangers,now manifests as intimate monitoring by acquaintances.Privacy,conceived as a spatial construct,embodies the subject's imperative to safeguard its inherent opacity.It retreats into inner sanctums,carving out a domain of secrecy.Protecting privacy extends beyond safeguarding secrets;it is integral to upholding individual dignity and life's sanctity.Privacy ethics,a moral safeguard,shields personal affairs,information,and domains from intrusion and violation.Diverging from legal notions of privacy,it operates on principles distinct in subjectivity,scope,mechanism,and execution.In a transparent society,privacy ethics evolve from concealment to transparency.Paradoxically,privacy thrives amidst transparency,with ethics transcending interactions with strangers to encompass familiar acquaintances.The seemingly boundless transparent society does not wholly obliterate privacy;instead,active transparency becomes a shield against intrusion.Transparency with acquaintances preserves genuine privacy,while openness to strangers fosters camaraderie and trust.This recalibration of privacy ethics stems from the trans-interpersonal communication dynamics inherent in a transparent society.