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    It is not the case that Privacy protects individuals from unwanted access by others.

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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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    • 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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