Privacy

Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to stop information about themselves from becoming known to people other than those they choose to give the information to. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity although it is often most highly valued by people who are publicly known. Privacy can be seen as an aspect of security—one in which trade-offs between the interests of one group and another can become particularly clear.

See also

• Mass surveillance
• Data retention
• Civil liberties
• Data privacy
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
• RFID (radio frequency identification)
• The Transparent Society, a non-fiction book by David Brin, foreseeing an erosion of the right to privacy in the future.
• Digital Fortress, a novel by Dan Brown, about governmental powers to monitor its citizens' communications.