Privacy as the Enemy
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Full Title or Meme
No right, especially a right so nebulous as privacy, is absolute. Privacy as the Enemy discusses some of the pathology of too much privacy.
Context
- Privacy was unknown in tribal society. If you wanted to be alone, you would just walk away from the group, and rejoin when you were ready. The wiki page Privacy deals in more detail with the concept from the 1880's to the current time.
- The tension between individual rights an Civil Society is not new, it was understood by the ancient Greeks and the enlightenment philosophers.
