What is Privacy?
Individuals are the subjects of accelerating commercial data collection. When two parties transact, a record of the meeting is formed. Technology allows broad aggregation of these occurrences. An individual’s interest in controlling this information leads to an interest in preventing his own identification (by others). Thus to limit information existing outside of an individual’s domain of control, he must remain anonymous. Our hope to remain anonymous is our expectation of privacy—what cryptographer Eric Hughes defined as “the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.”
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