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Privacy

According to Eric Hughes, "Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."[1]

Types of privacy giving rise to special concerns:

• political privacy
• consumer privacy
• medical privacy
• information technology end user privacy; also called data privacy
• private property

• 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.

• Non-transparent packages;
• Encryption of communications and other information;
• De jure establishment of privacy rights as an entitlement;
• sue, shun or harm those guilty of outing;
• toilets, 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).

• The Transparent Society, carceral state, RFID, Data privacy, freedom, civil rights, private sphere.

• John Does.org internet anonymity site
• Electronic Frontier Foundation digital rights NGO
• privacy.org public and consumer privacy movement
• Stop1984 privacy rights group internet site