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Privacy is a right that protects such things as intrusion upon one's solitude, disclosure of embarrassing private facts, being placed publically in a false light, or having one's likeness used to the another's advantage.

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Privacy is not simply an extension of the protection of property but amounts to a principle of 'inviolate personality' or a general right of immunity of the person. In short, 'the right to one's personality'.

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Privacy is almost non-existent today. The current degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

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Privacy is a part of ourselves that we keep all to ourselves, for every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody.

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Privacy is not only for those involved in hiding criminality. Few care so little for it that they would make their email password public. Whether it be a call on our own or on an intimate's behalf to an HIV clinic, a suicide hotline, a doctor, a spouse, a psychiatrist, political activity, there are things that need not be public.

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Privacy is the mark of civilization insofar as civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy, whereas the savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.

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Privacy is, as a legal standard of non-intervention by the state, potentially dangerous for women in that when it is used as a legal weapon in such cases as marital rape.