We study how people understand their privacy as users of technology, examine and document the risks and opportunities of privacy-related policies at various levels of society, and help build tools and techniques to ensure individual identities and data are protected.

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There are multiple techniques to invade privacy, which may be employed by corporations or governments for profit or political reasons. Conversely, people may employ encryption or anonymity measures to protect their privacy.

In this article, we will first focus on the histories of privacy in various discourses and spheres of life. We will also discuss the history of legislating privacy protections in different times and (legal) cultures.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures; the First and Fifth include privacy protections in that they focus not on what the government may do but rather on the individual’s freedom to be autonomous.

What is privacy? Privacy is a fundamental right, essential to autonomy and the protection of human dignity, serving as the foundation upon which many other human rights are built.

When we think about privacy, most of us think about particular limits on what we want others to know about us. Those "others" include governments, but also corporations, teachers, school administrators, parents, siblings, law enforcement agents, classmates, strangers, neighbors, friends.