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Record W4415570594 · doi:10.1017/beq.2025.10085

The Danger of Contextual Integrity

2025· article· en· W4415570594 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Mihailis Diamantis

Bibliographic record

VenueBusiness Ethics Quarterly · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLaw, Rights, and Freedoms
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersYork UniversityYale UniversityNational Science Foundation
KeywordsAdversarial systemSocialityData integrityContextual designContext analysisPersonal Integrity

Abstract

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Contextual integrity has now become a (the?) dominant academic theory of privacy. It identifies privacy as both complex and social, two alluring attributes that other leading theories reject. Scholars who engage contextual integrity mostly do so only to convey their confidence in it as their working framework. Even passingly critical notes are rare. This article offers a legal realist critique: Were contextual integrity adopted as a legal standard, it would undermine the very values it was intended to protect, systematically favoring data-hungry corporations at the expense of an already shrinking zone of protected individual privacy. Contextual integrity is dangerous precisely because of the complexity and sociality that draw so many scholars to it. In an adversarial courtroom that pits corporate data interests against aggrieved individuals, these theoretical virtues favor the more sophisticated, well-funded, repeat player.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.043
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.078
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.043
Threshold uncertainty score0.225

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0430.078
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0120.083
Scholarly communication0.0170.033
Open science0.0040.017
Research integrity0.0080.019
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.058
GPT teacher head0.349
Teacher spread0.291 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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