socialism is understood that considers all of the ownership of this world is shared ownership, no private rights exist in socialism, private ownership is taboo in socialism, so it will be very difficult to understand socialism to have privacy.
I have no idea what are you reading but individual ownership is consistent with socialism since Marx wrote that post-capitalist society would entail the rebuilding of associated social individual ownership.This understanding is very difficult to be applied to the idea of democracy, the idea of democracy is still recognizes that there is privacy on the individual person, but between democracy and socialism have in common one considers that the voice of the people is the voice of god ... 
Both socialism and liberalism are democratic philosophies.