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    Privacy protects individuals from unwanted access by others. — Carmelics
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    Privacy protects individuals from unwanted access by others.

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    • 1.Unwanted access by others can take the form of physical access, access to personal information, or unwanted attention.
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    • 2.Privacy functions as a barrier against such unwanted access.
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    • 1.Privacy is not merely a barrier but a constitutive condition for selfhood, making 'protection from access' an impoverished reduction of its function.
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    • 2.Charles Fried and Jeffrey Reiman argue privacy enables the very construction of intimate relationships and personal identity, not just their defense.
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    • 3.A barrier-model of privacy treats the self as pre-formed and static, ignoring that autonomy and personhood are developed through controlled self-disclosure.
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    • 1.Surveillance theorists like David Lyon demonstrate that individuals routinely consent to or desire forms of access that dissolve the unwanted/wanted binary.
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    • 2.When access is structurally coerced—as in employment monitoring or state databases—framing privacy as blocking 'unwanted' access obscures systemic power asymmetries.
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    • 3.The claim presupposes a voluntarist model of preference that cannot account for manufactured consent or adaptive preferences under surveillance regimes.
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    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
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