Quote from: Fahim2005 on April 26, 2020, 06:00:54 PM

Privacy helps people protect themselves from these troublesome judgments. People establish boundaries from others in society. ... Privacy helps people manage these boundaries. Breaches of these boundaries can create awkward social situations and damage our relationships
1:::Privacy is a limit on government power, as well as the power of private sector companies. The more someone knows about us, the more power they can have over us. Personal data is used to make very important decisions in our lives. Personal data can be used to affect our reputations; and it can be used to influence our decisions and shape our behavior. It can be used as a tool to exercise control over us. And in the wrong hands, personal data can be used to cause us great harm.
2;:;Privacy is about respecting individuals. If a person has a reasonable desire to keep something private, it is disrespectful to ignore that persons wishes without a compelling reason to do so. Of course, the desire for privacy can conflict with important values, so privacy may not always win out in the balance. Sometimes peoples desires for privacy are just brushed aside because of a view that the harm in doing so is trivial. Even if this doesnt cause major injury, it demonstrates a lack of respect for that person. In a sense it is saying: I care about my interests, but I dont care about yours.
3;:;Privacy enables people to manage their reputations. How we are judged by others affects our opportunities, friendships, and overall well-being. Although we cant have complete control over our reputations, we must have some ability to protect our reputations from being unfairly harmed. Protecting reputation depends on protecting against not only falsehoods but also certain truths. Knowing private details about peoples lives doesnt necessarily lead to more accurate judgment about people. People judge badly, they judge in haste, they judge out of context, they judge without hearing the whole story, and they judge with hypocrisy. Privacy helps people protect themselves from these troublesome judgments.
4;:;People establish boundaries from others in society. These boundaries are both physical and informational. We need places of solitude to retreat to, places where we are free of the gaze of others in order to relax and feel at ease. We also establish informational boundaries, and we have an elaborate set of these boundaries for the many different relationships we have. Privacy helps people manage these boundaries. Breaches of these boundaries can create awkward social situations and damage our relationships. Privacy is also helpful to reduce the social friction we encounter in life. Most people dont want everybody to know everything about them hence the phrase none of your business. And sometimes we dont want to know everything about other people hence the phrase too much information.
5;:;In relationships, whether personal, professional, governmental, or commercial, we depend upon trusting the other party. Breaches of confidentiality are breaches of that trust. In professional relationships such as our relationships with doctors and lawyers, this trust is key to maintaining candor in the relationship. Likewise, we trust other people we interact with as well as the companies we do business with. When trust is breached in one relationship, that could make us more reluctant to trust in other relationships.
6;:;Personal data is essential to so many decisions made about us, from whether we get a loan, a license or a job to our personal and professional reputations. Personal data is used to determine whether we are investigated by the government, or searched at the airport, or denied the ability to fly. Indeed, personal data affects nearly everything, including what messages and content we see on the Internet. Without having knowledge of what data is being used, how it is being used, the ability to correct and amend it, we are virtually helpless in todays world. Moreover, we are helpless without the ability to have a say in how our data is used or the ability to object and have legitimate grievances be heard when data uses can harm us. One of the hallmarks of freedom is having autonomy and control over our lives, and we cant have that if so many important decisions about us are being made in secret without our awareness or participation.

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