Interrogating “privacy” in a world brimming with high political entanglements, surveillance, interdependence & interconnections

Former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice and social justice champion Louis D. Brandeis left behind some resplendent perspectives for contemporaries, and to aid future Americans and people in the world over, some fertile thoughts and stable directions toward societal regularization and commeasurement, and essential themes and concerns to one’s personal cultivation to chance a more ideal “personal configuration” for all. In, and for similar endeavors, Brandeis directed that “[t]he first essential of wise and just action is knowledge” [5]. [...]following a beckoning from Brandeis, and to infuse several Privacy fundamentals as an introduction to the totality of the information from our valued contributors to this Special Issue on Privacy and Security, this Editorial Chapter shall aim to present a more wholistic and foundational understanding of Privacy attributes - universally desirable among the participants in the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” [6]. [...]a significant portion of this writing will be devoted to an examination of Privacy/Security values and the human dimension. Interrogating “privacy” Does Privacy know, who, or what, Privacy is? Since a conversation with “Privacy” per se is impossible, the next most logical step must be one aimed to catechize ourselves on the subject of Privacy.