The Limit of Privacy and Right to Autonomy: A Study from the information ethics and the history

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370040
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Kibi International University
• Principal Investigator: Otani Takushi 吉備国際大学, アニメーション文化学部, 准教授 (50389003)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MURAKAMI I. Yuko 東北大学, 文学部, 准教授 (80435502) ; KAWAGUCHI Yukiko 植草学園大学, 発達教育学部, 准教授 (90531624) ; KAWAGUCHI Kanako 東京藝術大学, 戦略企画インテリジェンスユニット, 特任助教 (10706906) ; NAGASAKI Kiyonori 一般財団法人人文情報学研究所, 主席研究員 (30343429) ; TSUBOI Masashi 神奈川大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20386816) ; YOSHINAGA Nobuyuki 山口県立大学, 国際文化学部, 准教授 (30382386)
• Research Collaborator: HAGA Takahiro 岐阜聖徳学園大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (90637761)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 哲学と法、技術におけるプライバシーの横断的考察 / プライバシーの多義性 / 自己同一性とプライバシー / アルゴリズムのバイアス / ソーシャルメディアによる世論操作問題

Outline of Final Research Achievements

1) We marshaled basic information ethics material related to the problems of privacy and autonomy, and updated the information ethics textbook we previously published for university students to reflect recent social and technological developments. 2) We summarized the history of information ethics. 3) We overviewed theories on privacy and autonomy in ethics and philosophy. Using these works as our basis, we considered the latest problems, such as 4) the possibility of the manipulation of public opinion by social media and 5) the influence of search engine algorithms, which arrange search results, to the users' decisions. 6) The principal researcher published a book entitled _Information Ethics: Technology, Privacy, and Copyright_ as part of this project's research results, and received an honorable mention in the Telecom Social Sciences Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, Japan.

Free Research Field

哲学・倫理学（情報倫理学）