"Defining privacy in terms of access to personal information is popular among legal schlars; when lawyers refer to the legal protection of privacy, they are often referring to the protection of an individual's information privacy, theability of people to control the flow of information about themselves. While a definition of privacy focusing only on information privacy interests has the advtange of simplicity, it excludes two other situations that are commonly regarded as losses of privacy: intrusions upon seclusion and deprivation of anonymity. Of all the many attempts at definition, Gavison's descriptive, neutral concept of privacy – centered around the notion of the degree to which an individual is assessible to others – seems to us to be the most satisfactory."
January 1, 1970