The article maps a discrepancy between the structural nature of risks that emanate from current digital ID programmes, with a focus on Africa and the more individualistic conceptual foundation of the right to privacy. Building on scholarships on group privacy and social value of privacy it will show the inadequacy of the individualistic orientation
Long abstract:
The article maps a contradiction between the structural nature of risks that emanate from current digital ID programmes (with focus on Africa) and the more individualistic conceptual foundation of the right to privacy. Building on existing scholarships on group privacy and social value of privacy, the article will show the inadequacy of the individualistic right to privacy in the context of big data driven public and private decision-making. It will then introduce an alternative perspective that builds on the current privacy debate through Africa’s people-centric view of rights.