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Privacy is the ability of a person to control the availability of information about and exposure of him- or herself. It is related to being able to function in society anonymously(including pseudonymous or blind credential identification).
According to Eric Hughes , "Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."[1]
Types of privacy giving rise to special concerns:
Some ways in which privacy is lost include the following:
- Waiver of privacy right included in the terms of a contract.
- Theft of confidential information, e.g. by computer cracking .
- Statutory or regulatory orders to provide private material (eg, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act in the UK)
- Compulsory National identity cards, especially when linked to central government databases
- Statutory or regulatory intrusion on private acts (assorted wiretapping provisions just about everywhere -- most do not include notice which can be opposed in a court)
- Involuntary " outing", e.g. of homosexuals, often by others of the same political category who seek openness over privacy, or opponents intent on shaming them.
Some methods which have been used to defend privacy include the following:
- Non- transparentIn optics, transparency is the property of being transparent or allowing light to pass. The opposite property is opacity . Though transparency usually refers to visible light in common usage, it can actually refer to any type of radiation. For example, fl packages;
- EncryptionThis article is about algorithms for encryption and decryption. For an overview of cryptographic technology related to encryption, see cryptography. In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special of communications and other information;
- De jureDe jure is a Latin expression that means "by law", as contrasted with de facto which means "in fact". The terms de jure and de facto are used like "in principle" and "in practice" when one is describing political situations. They are also often used when establishment of privacy rights as an entitlement;
- sue, shun or harm those guilty of outing;
- toiletA toilet is a plumbing fixture devised for the disposal of bodily wastes, including urine, feces, menses and vomit. The word toilet can be used to refer to the fixture itself or the room containing it. Etymology The word toilet came to be used in Englishs, showers and changing rooms separated by sex and/or with separate cubicles; partitions between urinals; possibility to lock the door;
- separate rooms for people in their house, possibility to lock the door, agreement to knock before entering (with or without waiting for a reply).
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