'Too much privacy—just like too little privacy—can undermine the ways we can use information for progressive change,' writes Orly Lobel
Privacy is important when it protects people against harmful surveillance and public disclosure of personal information. But privacy is just one of our democratic society’s many values, and prohibiting safe and equitable data collection can conflict with other equally valuable social goals.
We rightfully fear surveillance when it is designed to use our personal information in harmful ways. Yet a default assumption that data collection is harmful is simply misguided. We should focus on regulating misuse rather than banning collection. Take for example perhaps the most controversial technologies that privacy advocates avidly seek to ban: facial recognition. 20 cities and counties around the U.S. have passed bans on government facial recognition.
on the technology will stall improvements to its accuracy and hinder its safe integration, to the detriment of vulnerable populations. These outright bans ignore that surveillance cameras can help protect victims of domestic violence against abuser trespassing,
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