Privacy
Privacy has been understood as entailing two different concepts; namely informational privacy and decisional privacy. The former concerns the right to be left alone in respect of the most intimate details of one's personal life and is a more accepted doctrine than the latter which concerns freedom from undue regulation and control.
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Famous quotes containing the word privacy:
“Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)