| Acknowledgement | 13 |
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| 0 Introduction | 15 |
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| 0.1 The significance of a phenomenology of whoness as the startingpoint for discussing the question concerning privacy and freedom in the internet | 17 |
| 0.2 A provisional stocktaking of the discussion in information ethics on privacy and freedom in the internet age | 19 |
| 0.3 Course of the investigation | 21 |
| 1 Phenomenology of whoness: identity, privacy, trust and freedom | 25 |
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| 1.1 The trace of whoness starts with the Greeks | 25 |
| 1.2 Selfhood as an identification with reflections from the world | 28 |
| 1.3 Values, ethos, ethics | 33 |
| 1.4 The question concerning rights: personal privacy, trust and intimacy | 37 |
| 1.5 The private individual, liberty, private property (Locke) | 42 |
| 1.6 The private individual and private property as a mode of reified sociation: the gainful game (classical political economy, Marx) | 48 |
| 1.7 Trust as the gainful game’s element and the privacy of private property | 54 |
| 1.8 Justice and state protection of privacy | 59 |
| 1.9 Kant’s free autonomous subject and privatio in the use of reason | 65 |
| 1.10 Privacy as protection of individual autonomy — On Rössler’s The Value of Privacy | 71 |
| 1.11 Arendt on whoness in the world | 85 |
| 1.11.1 Arendt’s discovery of the plurality of whos in The Human Condition | 85 |
| 1.11.2 The question concerning whoness as the key question of social ontology | 90 |
| 1.11.3 The untenability of the distinction between labour, work and action | 98 |
| 1.11.4 Whoness and the gainful game | 104 |
| 1.11.5 Public and private realms? | 107 |
| 1.12 Recapitulation and outlook | 111 |
| 2 Digital ontology | 113 |
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| 2.1 From the abstraction from physical beings to their digital representation | 114 |
| 2.2 Mathematical access to the movement of physical beings | 116 |
| 2.3 The mathematical conception of linear, continuous time | 119 |
| 2.4 Outsourcing of the arithmologos as digital code | 120 |
| 2.5 The parallel cyberworld that fits like a glove | 122 |
| 2.5.1 Cyberspace | 128 |
| 2.5.2 Cybertime | 129 |
| 3 Digital whoness in connection with privacy, publicness and freedom | 133 |
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| 3.1 Digital identity - a number? | 133 |
| 3.2 Digital privacy: personal freedom to reveal and conceal | 138 |
| 3.3 Protection of private property in the cyberworld | 141 |
| 3.4 Cyber-publicness | 149 |
| 3.5 Freedom in the cyberworld | 155 |
| 3.5.1 The cyberworld frees itself first of all | 155 |
| 3.5.2 The gainful game unleashes its freedom in the cyberworld | 160 |
| 3.5.3 Human freedom in the cyberworld | 162 |
| 3.6 Assessing Tavani’s review of theories and issues concerning personal privacy | 163 |
| 3.7 An appraisal of Nissenbaum’s Privacy in Context | 174 |
| 3.8 Floridi’s metaphysics of the threefold-encapsulated subject in a world conceived as infosphere | 184 |
| 3.8.1 The purported “informational nature of personal identity” | 184 |
| 3.8.2 Floridi’s purportedly “ontological interpretation of informational privacy” | 198 |
| 3.9 On Charles Ess’ appraisal of Floridi’s information ethics | 203 |
| 3.9.1 Informational ontology | 205 |
| 3.9.2 Informational privacy | 207 |
| 3.9.3 Getting over the subject-object split | 210 |
| 3.10 Beavers’ response to an objection by Floridi to AI by reverting to Husserlian subjectivist phenomenology | 211 |
| 4 Intercultural aspects of digitally mediated whoness, privacy and freedom | 217 |
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| 4.1 Privacy and publicness from an intercultural viewpoint | 217 |
| 4.2 The Far East | 219 |
| 4.2.1 Japan | 219 |
| 4.2.2 Thailand | 224 |
| 4.2.3 China | 227 |
| 4.3 Latin America | 230 |
| 4.4 Africa | 236 |
| 4.5 Conclusion | 238 |
| 5 Cyberworld, privacy and the EU | 241 |
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| 5.1 European integration, freedom, economics | 241 |
| 5.2 The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms | 245 |
| 5.3 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights | 249 |
| 5.4 The Council of Europe Resolution on the protection of the privacy of individuals vis-à-vis electronic data banks in the private and public sectors | 251 |
| 5.5 The Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data and the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data | 254 |
| 5.6 Directive 95/46/EC | 259 |
| 5.7 Directive 2002/58/EC | 271 |
| 5.8 Communication (2010) 609 | 275 |
| 5.9 Draft Regulation COM (2012) 11 final | 278 |
| 5.10 Conclusion — a watertight approach? | 282 |
| 6 Brave new cyberworld | 287 |
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| 6.1 What’s coming | 287 |
| 6.2 e-Commerce | 289 |
| 6.3 Forgetfulness | 293 |
| 7 Bibliography | 295 |
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| 8 Name index | 313 |
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