Symposium: Firmin DeBrabander's Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society.

The article titled "Symposium: Firmin DeBrabander's Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" explores the erosion of privacy in the age of Big Data and discusses the challenges of resisting this trend. It examines the power dynamics between the state, corporations, and individuals, highlighting their role in governing and controlling personal information. The author argues for the importance of privacy and suggests shifting focus towards a political conception of public life inspired by civil rights and labor movements. The article acknowledges the complexity of privacy and its applications, but emphasizes the need to push back against Big Data and defend privacy as a threat to individual identities. [Extracted from the article]