Ian Kerr

Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and Technology, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, iankerr@uottawa.ca. I would like to thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canada Research Chairs program for their generous support. Special thanks to Carys Craig for teaching me about and inspiring me to undertake a relational account of privacy. Thank you to David Matheson for being my epistemological guardian angel; and to Joelle Pineau, Laurel Reik, Bill Smart, and Jodi Forlizzi for lending precision to some of my technical assertions. I am also grateful to the participants of The Problem of Theorizing Privacy conference, organized by Michael Birnhack, Julie Cohen and Mireille Hildebrandt. This event generated very thoughtful commentary from Eldar Haber, and useful feedback from Tal Zarsky, Mireille Hildbrandt, Helen Nissenbaum, Eran Toch, Ruth Gavison, Anita Allen, Michael Bar-Sinai, Alon Jasper, Lisa Austin, and Mauricio Figueroa Torres. This article also benefitted from a second presentation at the University of Surrey’s Workshop on the Regulation of AI organized by Ryan Abbott and Alex Sarch, with excellent commentary from Steven Bero. Saving the best for last, my extreme gratitude goes out to Ida Mahmoudi for the outstanding research assistance that she so regularly and reliably provides and to Katie Szilagyi — engineer, lawyer, doctoral candidate par excellence and proud owner of these fine footnotes — for grace under pressure, her tireless enthusiasm, her ability to find anything under the sun, her insatiable intellectual curiosity, and her deep-seated disposition for arête … which she has not only cultivated for herself but, through collaboration, inspires in others.