the.com/privacy
the thing you swear you have while typing your password in front of a webcam
means the state of being free from observation, intrusion, or unwanted attention, where you control who knows your business.
from From Latin 'privatus,' meaning 'set apart, belonging to oneself' — the same root that gives us 'private' and 'deprive.' It comes from 'privare,' to separate or release from public life. In Roman thought, a 'privatus' was a citizen withdrawn from public office, an ordinary person rather than a magistrate; the word carried a faint sense of being 'cut off' from the shared world. English picked up 'privacy' from this stock, and it has meant 'seclusion from others' ever since.
- word origin
- From Latin privatus, meaning withdrawn from public life
- legal ghost
- The US Constitution never once uses the word
- incognito myth
- Private browsing hides nothing from your internet provider
- price tag
- Your location data sells for fractions of a cent
- paradox
- People share secrets online to feel less alone
gdpr — eu regulation affecting 447 million people, enforced since may 2018
right to be forgotten — eu court ruling 2014 allowing people to request removal of personal data from search results
cambridge analytica scandal — 2018 breach where 87 million facebook users' data was harvested without consent