ABSTRACT
While the meaning of the term privacy coheres around the notion of personal integrity and dignity (Bloustein 1964), it is hard to define with any precision – it can embrace notions as varied as the right to freedom of thought and conscience, the right to be alone, the right to control one’s own body, the right to protect reputation, the right to a family life, the right to a sexuality or sexual identity of your own definition. It is deemed essential to human dignity and indeed to individuality, and if we have no privacy, we are less able to be ourselves.
