Conceptualizing Privacy by Daniel Solove

We have talked about the book The Digital Person by Prof. Daniel J. Solove, who is an associate professor of law at the George Washington University Law School.

I have found this paper by Solove "Conceptualizing Privacy" in SSRN (Social Science Research Network)

In this Article, Professor Solove develops a new approach for conceptualizing privacy. He begins by examining the existing discourse about conceptualizing privacy, exploring the conceptions of a wide array of jurists, legal scholars, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists. Solove contends that the theories are too narrow or too broad. With a few exceptions, the discourse seeks to conceptualize privacy by isolating one or more common essential or core characteristics of privacy. Expounding upon Ludwig Wittgenstein's notion of family resemblance, Solove contends that privacy is better understood as drawing from a common pool of similar characteristics. Rather than search for an overarching concept, Solove advances a pragmatic approach to conceptualizing privacy.