privacy
Definition
In general, the right to be free from secret surveillance and to determine whether, when, how, and to whom, one's personal or organizational information is to be revealed. In specific, privacy may be divided into four categories (1) Physical: restriction on others to experience a person or situation through one or more of the human senses; (2) Informational: restriction on searching for or revealing facts that are unknown or unknowable to others; (3) Decisional: restriction on interfering in decisions that are exclusive to an entity; (4) Dispositional: restriction on attempts to know an individual's state of mind.
privacy is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law subject.
privacy appears in the definitions of the following terms:
doctor-patient privilege,
cookie,
secure system,
Open Financial Exchange (OPX),
clipper chip,
pretty good privacy (PGP),
right,
attorney-client privilege,
secure socket layer (SSL),
offshore haven
and
privacy appears in the other terms: privacy policy, privacy law, platform for privacy preferences project (P3P), invasion of privacy
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