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• n  the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
• n  the condition of being concealed or hidden

• Under this system, companies are allowed to cede responsibility for their privacy standards to a separate organization which monitors its members' compliance with privacy .
• Most industrialized nations have evolved legal codes to protect their citizens from such invasions of privacy.
• For the longest time, I couldn't get worked up about privacy: my right to it; how it's dying; how we're headed for an even more wired, underregulated, overintrusive, privacy .

• privateness
• seclusion
• secrecy
• concealment

News & Articles

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• Privacy, please: New technologies could hide your identity online
  You may want to stay anonymous online — that doesn't mean you can. Data crunching has grown so sophisticated and powerful, privacy researchers now warn that tracing identities from a pool of supposedly "anonymized" data is not just a possibility, it's a certainty."It is depressingly hard to try to anonymize data in a way that resists identification by a committed adversary," Arvind Narayanan, a ...
  June 14, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Privacy _ the online generation wants it
  CHICAGO (AP) — The generation that's grown up posting their lives online wants a little privacy. That's not what we might expect as we debate just how much access the government should have to our mobile and online lives.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Privacy In Retreat, A Timeline
  The erosion of privacy is often pegged to post-Sept. 11 changes in federal law, but some of the most significant moments in our evolution to a less private world have come in the commercial realm.
  June 11, 2013 - NPR

Quotes

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• Nelson Mandela in ITN
  The Nelson Mandela Foundation said in a statement: "The family has asked for privacy as they mourn this tragedy."
• John McCain in Detroit Free Press
  This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them,the McCain campaign said in...
• Keith Urban in TheShowBuzz
  In a statement released by his publicists, Urban says the incident was "the result of one person's desire to do his job and my desire to maintain my privacy."