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privacy
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privacy
The degree to which an individual can determine which personal information is to be shared with whom and for what purpose. Although always a concern when users pass confidential information to vendors by phone, mail or fax, the Internet has brought this issue to the forefront. Web sites often have privacy policies that stipulate exactly what will be done with the information you enter. For more information, visit www.privacyalliance.org and www.epic.org. Contrast with confidentiality, which deals with unauthorized access to data. See privacy policy, CPO, EU Directive, GLB, HIPAA and P3P.
privacy
Philosophy the condition of being necessarily restricted to a single person

privacy - Where only the intended recipients can read a message.


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37) But assuming arguendo that Griswold did stand for a right to contraceptive devices, the Court recognized that in Griswold "the right of privacy in question inhered in the marital relationship.
[T]here was no Supreme Court case law addressing either the issue of whether there is a constitutionally protected right of privacy in one's sexual orientation, or the issue of whether a mere threat to disclose constitutionally protected private information can constitute a constitutional tort.
 
 
 
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