Three Approaches to Privacy: As Penetration, Regulation, and Negotiation

The observed increase in the amount of personal information that is publicly visible online depends partly on users’ behaviors, partly on the active policies of Internet companies, partly on regulators’ interventions. A historical perspective is now in order to pinpoint the elements of novelty in today’s situation, to characterize more precisely the reasons and modes of the current transformations, and to start thinking about suitable policy responses.