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Body-worn cameras are quickly becoming ubiquitous in public spaces around the world. Whether worn by officers of the law or personnel of a local car parking authority, they present a unique form of surveillance which challenges privacy in public. Governments and other organizations are adopting laws, internal rules, and operational guidelines in a scramble to catch up with the rapid spread of the technology. This fragmented approach to policymaking has so far not provided a panacea to the surrounding privacy issues. In this contribution, we will apply the relatively underexplored theoretical angle of republican political theory and its focus on non-domination to this problem. We argue that taking a republican approach to the value of privacy might be a first step towards addressing some of the concerns raised by the chapters. We focus on two aspects of republican theory: the arbitrariness of interferences, and the closely related notion of freedom as non-domination rather than non-interference. The potential usefulness of the concept of collective privacy in this regard will also be discussed. First, however, we will summarize the preceding chapters which inform this analysis.

Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also the well-being and social interaction of their users. They act and intervene in a political and social context. As algorithms influence individual behavior in these social and political situations, their power should be the subject of critical discourse - or even lead to active disobedience and to the need for appropriate tools and methods which can be used to break the algorithmic power