Identity and Privacy in a Digitalized World
Name of applicant
Jens-Erik Mai
Title
Professor
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Amount
DKK 1,244,005
Year
2025
Type of grant
Monograph Fellowships
Summary
The monograph argues that informational privacy, focused on control of personal data, is inadequate in the digital age. It examines how technologies, datafication, and classification shape personhood and argues that privacy is better understood as the right to shape one’s identity. The monograph guides scholars, policymakers and the public to protect identity formation and not just information.