Things People Keep To Themselves

Become Interesting When Missing

Become Less Valuable When Shared

Become More Precious When They End

Become More Valuable When Rare

Become Weaker When Shared

Borrow Importance From Scarcity

Change When Someone Walks In

Erode

Exist To Be Lost

Keep The Weather Out

Need Boundaries

Need Defense

Need Protection

Quietly Contract

Reward Absence

Reward Emptiness

Reward Secrecy

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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.

Prosser nevertheless described the four 'rather definite' privacy rights as follows:Intrusion upon a person's seclusion or solitude, or into his private affairs.Public disclosure of embarrassing private facts about an individual.Publicity placing one in a false light in the public eye.Appropriation of one's likeness for the advantage of another (Prosser 1960, 389).

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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.

Finally, there is the feminist critique of privacy, that granting special status to privacy is detrimental to women and others because it is used as a shield to dominate and control them, silence them, and cover up abuse (MacKinnon, 1989). (stanford encyclopedia) Catharine MacKinnon (1989) are correct that privacy can be dangerous for women when it is used to cover up repression and physical harm to them by perpetuating the subjection of women in the domestic sphere and encouraging nonintervention by the state.(stanford encyclopedia)

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.

There are all kinds of things we want to hide from other people that we tell our psychiatrist, our lawyer, our doctor, our spouse or a stranger on the Internet that have nothing to do with criminality,' he said.

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'.

Warren and Brandeis felt a variety of existing cases could be protected under a more general right to privacy which would protect the extent to which one's thoughts, sentiments, and emotions could be shared with others. Urging that they were not attempting to protect the items produced, or intellectual property, but rather the peace of mind attained with such protection, they said the right to privacy was based on a principle of 'inviolate personality' which was part of a general right of immunity of the person, 'the right to one's personality' (Warren and Brandeis 1890, 195, 215)

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.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it. Mark Twain

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.

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. (Lewis Mumford)

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.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

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