Information privacy, the right to receive information and (mobile) ICTs

Abstract

The first part of this paper is about the notion of (information) privacy and its grounding in law. It discusses the tension between the right to privacy and the right to receive information. The second part of this paper explores how (mobile) ICTs challenge and complicate privacy claims and satisfy the right to receive information.

Keywords

• information privacy
• right to receive information
• ontological friction
• dialectical process
• (mobile) ICTs