The Right to One’s Self

Threatened Privacy Between Security and Freedom

What are the risks and opportunities for individual privacy of the gradual international standardisation of law and the global exchange of data? How and to what extent does technological and scientific progress affect privacy? The Zurich Progress Foundation has addressed these questions in several closed workshops and public economic conferences. The texts and presentations discussed at these events have now been collected together with original contributions in an anthology. In an age of state redistribution, centralisation and surveillance, the book aims to set an example for the value of the private sphere. The starting point is a classical liberal attitude that advocates the sustainable strengthening of a civil society based on competition, private property and responsibility.