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"...we are an open society that believes that visibility in government brings accountability. With respect to individuals a valued legacy of the 1960s is personal openness and honesty. The only people who worry about privacy are those who have something to hide. Right? Wrong!! There are at least 10 reasons why privacy and anonymity are important: The ability to control information about the self is linked to the dignity of the individual, self-respect and the sense of personhood. Self-presentations and back-stage behavior are dependent on such control. Anonymity can be socially useful in encouraging honesty, risk-taking, experimentation and creativity. Confidentiality (via dissemination protections) improves communication flows and is vital to trust in professional (doctors, lawyers, psychologists) and corporate settings. Privacy is a resource in inter-personal relations, doled out and exchanged as relationships progress. Intimacy is based partly on the voluntary sharing of personal information with others. Individuals feel free to be "themselves" as they get to know others better, and reciprocal exchanges take place. The control of information is a strategic resource in impersonal relations. Trade secrets and copyrights are a formal expression of this. Group boundaries are maintained partly by control over information. Individuals are in or out, and occupy organizational positions based partly on what they are entitled to know and have access to. Privacy makes possible the American ideal of starting over and the fresh start. Fairness can be protected by denying access to information which could be put to unfair use. For example while religious discrimination is illegal, if employers, schools, and landlords could ask it (as in most cases they now can not) such protections would be weakened. Privacy can help provide the solitude and peace necessary to mental health and creativity in a dynamic society. Here it is a question of control over what is taken in, rather than what is given out. There is a broader, all encompassing symbolic meaning of practices that protect privacy. Such practices say something about what a nation stands for and are vital to individualism. By contrast, a thread running through all totalitarian systems from the prison to the authoritarian state is lack of respect for the individual's right to control information about the self. It has been said that the mark of a civilization can be seen in how it treats its prisoners, it might also be seen in how it treats personal privacy." "Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas has written that the United States Constitution with its Bill of Rights ...guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But the guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air-- however slight-- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Click here to view full article, or c&p the url (http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/privantt.html) into your browser.
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