The Ethics of Sharing: Privacy, Data, and Common Goods

Abstract Given the concerns about big tech’s hoarding of data, creation profiles, mining and extrapolation new knowledge from their data warehouses, there is a need interest in devising policies regulations that better shape tech's influence on people lives. One such proposal to create commons. In this paper, we examine idea commons as well concept sharing relation personal data. We argue are different nature objects classical wherefore logic “sharing caring” flawed. We, therefore, develop an ethics taking privacy into account sometimes right thing do not sharing. This based conceptualize MacIntyrean practices Wittgensteinian forms life.