Acknowledgement -- 0 Introduction -- 0.1 The significance of a phenomenology of whoness as the startingpoint for discussing the question concerning privacy and freedom in the internet -- 0.2 A provisional stocktaking of the discussion in information ethics on privacy and freedom in the internet age -- 0.3 Course of the investigation -- 1 Phenomenology of whoness: identity, privacy, trust and freedom -- 1.1 The trace of whoness starts with the Greeks -- 1.2 Selfhood as an identification with reflections from the world -- 1.3 Values, ethos, ethics -- 1.4 The question concerning rights: personal privacy, trust and intimacy -- 1.5 The private individual, liberty, private property (Locke) -- 1.6 The private individual and private property as a mode of reified sociation: the gainful game (classical political economy, Marx) -- 1.7 Trust as the gainful game's element and the privacy of private property -- 1.8 Justice and state protection of privacy -- 1.9 Kant's free autonomous subject and privatio in the use of reason -- 1.10 Privacy as protection of individual autonomy - On Rössler's The Value of Privacy -- 1.11 Arendt on whoness in the world -- 1.11.1 Arendt's discovery of the plurality of whos in The Human Condition -- 1.11.2 The question concerning whoness as the key question of social ontology -- 1.11.3 The untenability of the distinction between labour, work and action -- 1.11.4 Whoness and the gainful game -- 1.11.5 Public and private realms? -- 1.12 Recapitulation and outlook -- 2 Digital ontology -- 2.1 From the abstraction from physical beings to their digital representation -- 2.2 Mathematical access to the movement of physical beings -- 2.3 The mathematical conception of linear, continuous time -- 2.4 Outsourcing of the arithmologos as digital code.

2.5 The parallel cyberworld that fits like a glove -- 2.5.1 Cyberspace -- 2.5.2 Cybertime -- 3 Digital whoness in connection with privacy, publicness and freedom -- 3.1 Digital identity - a number? -- 3.2 Digital privacy: personal freedom to reveal and conceal -- 3.3 Protection of private property in the cyberworld -- 3.4 Cyber-publicness -- 3.5 Freedom in the cyberworld -- 3.5.1 The cyberworld frees itself first of all -- 3.5.2 The gainful game unleashes its freedom in the cyberworld -- 3.5.3 Human freedom in the cyberworld -- 3.6 Assessing Tavani's review of theories and issues concerning personal privacy -- 3.7 An appraisal of Nissenbaum's Privacy in Context -- 3.8 Floridi's metaphysics of the threefold-encapsulated subject in a world conceived as infosphere -- 3.8.1 The purported "informational nature of personal identity" -- 3.8.2 Floridi's purportedly "ontological interpretation of informational privacy" -- 3.9 On Charles Ess' appraisal of Floridi's information ethics -- 3.9.1 Informational ontology -- 3.9.2 Informational privacy -- 3.9.3 Getting over the subject-object split -- 3.10 Beavers' response to an objection by Floridi to AI by reverting to Husserlian subjectivist phenomenology -- 4 Intercultural aspects of digitally mediated whoness, privacy and freedom -- 4.1 Privacy and publicness from an intercultural viewpoint -- 4.2 The Far East -- 4.2.1 Japan -- 4.2.2 Thailand -- 4.2.3 China -- 4.3 Latin America -- 4.4 Africa -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Cyberworld, privacy and the EU -- 5.1 European integration, freedom, economics -- 5.2 The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- 5.3 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

5.4 The Council of Europe Resolution on the protection of the privacy of individuals vis-à-vis electronic data banks in the private and public sectors -- 5.5 The Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data and the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data -- 5.6 Directive 95/46/EC -- 5.7 Directive 2002/58/EC -- 5.8 Communication (2010) 609 -- 5.9 Draft Regulation COM (2012) 11 final -- 5.10 Conclusion - a watertight approach? -- 6 Brave new cyberworld -- 6.1 What's coming -- 6.2 e-Commerce -- 6.3 Forgetfulness -- 7 Bibliography -- 8 Name index.