The Peeping Tom Effect Makes Us Worry About the Wrong Threats to Our Privacy

How a psychological bias could be keeping us from protecting our data

Robert Howell
OneZero
Published in
4 min readNov 7, 2019

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MMost of us know that we’ve become human data production engines, radiating our locations, interests, and associations for the benefit of others. A number of us are deeply concerned about that fact. But it seems that…

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Robert Howell
OneZero

Robert Howell is professor of philosophy at SMU. Author of Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity (Oxford, 2013).