Snowden’s revelations of 2013 have shifted attention to societal implications of surveillance practices and in particular privacy. This editorial reflects on key concepts and research questions raised in the issue. How can privacy be defined? Can it be designed? Considering such developments, this editorial asks if the public’s attitudes to the sharing of data have moved towards, ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ arguments and if greater awareness and corporate transparency are possible. Even if corporate surveillance does not operate through overt coercion, it is argued that it yet results in self-regulation and subjugation to neoliberal rationality. Since telecoms and social media companies generally work hand in hand with the state and legal and practical standpoints boundaries overlap on a great scale, how can privacy be safeguarded for citizens? And where ‘accountability’ of data holders, as interviewee Mark Andrejevic suggests, is a growing imperative. Contributions to this issue suggest detailed attention to legal frameworks, encryption practices, definitions of the surveilled subject and the history of such scrutiny may hold some of the answers.

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重新设计或重新定义隐私？

斯诺登（Snowden）在2013年发布的信息已将注意力转移到监视行为的社会意义上，尤其是隐私。这篇社论反映了本期中提出的关键概念和研究问题。如何定义隐私？可以设计吗？考虑到这样的发展，这篇社论询问公众对数据共享的态度是否朝着“无所不包，无所畏惧”的论点，以及是否有可能提高认识和提高企业透明度。有人认为，即使企业监督不能通过公开的强制手段进行，它仍会导致自我调节和屈从于新自由主义理性。由于电信和社交媒体公司通常与国家携手合作，法律和实践立场的界限在很大程度上相互重叠，公民如何保护隐私？正如受访者马克·安德列耶维奇（Mark Andrejevic）所建议的那样，数据持有人的“问责制”在哪里变得越来越重要。对这个问题的贡献表明，人们对法律框架，加密实践，被监视主题的定义以及这种审查的历史可能有更多的关注。