Privacy has been an important element in the protection of civil liberties, used by religious and political dissenters to censor state action and maintain a sphere of freedom of action by restraining the powers of the state vis-à-vis the individual. Many countries expressly protect rights of privacy in their constitutions. However, there is a concrete quality about the concept of privacy not least in the language of everyday life which takes for granted personal, internal worlds. Our relationships with others rest on the recognition of those, and of our own private identity.
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