"In any event, if privacy is not adequately conceptualised it risks becoming a transient 21st century phenomenon. In 1972 the English Law Reform Committee, the Younger Committee, made the following observations regarding the soundness of an xpansive or formless deifnition of, and approach to, privacy: An unqualified right [to privacy[ .. would .. be an unrealistic concept, incompatible with the concept o society, implying a willingness not to be let entirely alone and a recognition that other people may be interested and subsequently concerned about us. If the concept were to be embodied into a right, its adaptation to the dominant pressures of society would require so many exceptions that it would lose all coherence and hence any valid meaning."
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United Kingdom Report of the Committee on Privacy (Cmnd 5012, 1972) (the Younger Report) para 93; as quoted on p.7
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