Tim Cook’s message to Apple customers, regarding Apple’s refusal to provide the FBI with a backdoor to the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, typifies the corporate appropriation of privacy rights discourse. In light of this appropriation, I propose a reconsideration of the sovereign subject presupposed by privacy rights discourse through a comparative approach to the US and EU’s treatments of privacy rights. I then apply feminist theories of the non-sovereign subject, which challenge liberal democratic discourse’s construction of the subject by emphasising social interdependence. I argue that critical scholars of surveillance and the digital economy need to address the fact that the digital economy is predicated on the subject’s non-sovereignty, where individuals can be fragmented and combined into the mass collection of data. I conclude with a discussion of how the non-sovereignty of the subject under commercial surveillance could also provide the grounds for the socialized redistribution of big data profits.

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重新思考隐私：斯诺登之后的女性主义隐私权方法

蒂姆·库克 (Tim Cook) 向苹果客户传达的信息是，苹果拒绝向 FBI 提供圣贝纳迪诺枪手 iPhone 的后门，这是企业挪用隐私权话语的典型。鉴于这种拨款，我建议通过比较美国和欧盟对隐私权的处理方式，重新考虑隐私权话语预设的主权主体。然后，我运用非主权主体的女权主义理论，通过强调社会相互依存来挑战自由民主话语对主体的建构。我认为，监控和数字经济的批判性学者需要解决这样一个事实，即数字经济基于主体的非主权，个人可以被分割并组合成大量数据。