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Chapter 30

Title: “Privacy and the Varieties of Informational Wrongdoing”

by Jeroen van den Hoven

Quote: “Free rider problems can only take on socially unacceptable forms if the provider of
the public good does not know who rides free and cannot determine who the free riders are.”

Expectations:
I expect to learn why people tend to do the wrong doings even though they know that it
is wrong still they do it.

Book Review:
The author of this chapter is Jeroen van den Hoven. Jeroen discussed the panoptic
technologies and the public good, information based harm, informational inequality,
informational inequality, informational injustice, spheres of access, encroachment on moral
autonomy. This topic talks about the free-rider as a point of problem wherein some of the
people who joins in a group and gets all the credit without doing anything to help other
members in a project, group work, activities and many more. A solution to get rid of a free rider
is to leave them as is, drop them in the group, remove them, if we didn’t do anything, they will
just have to free ride all the way till the very end where they get all the credits without doing
anything to help out.

Things I have learned:

I learned that free riders are the one who doesn’t do anything still gets the reward or
credit, we can get rid of them like permanently removing them out of the group.

Integrity Questions:
1.) What is free rider?

2.) What is panoptic technology?

3.) What is informational injustice?

4.) What is informational inequalities?

5.) Who is the author of this chapter?