Interests in privacy are related to concerns over accessibility to others, specifically what others know about us, the extent to which they have physical access to us, and the extent to which we are the subject of the attention of others.
Another group of theorists characterize privacy in terms of access. Some commentators describe privacy as exclusive access of a person to a realm of his or her own, and Sissela Bok (1982) argues that privacy protects us from unwanted access by others — either physical access or personal information or attention. Ruth Gavison (1980) defends this more expansive view of privacy in greater detail, arguing that interests in privacy are related to concerns over accessibility to others, that is, what o