Without privacy, you lose your ability to have an identity of your own

Last Updated on 2022-07-08 by Joop Beris

I believe that privacy is something that humans need. Being able to do things and to speak about things without being watched or recorded is essential to growth and identity formation. How do you know who you are or what your values are if you are not free to explore those?

Without privacy, we are unable to test the waters in our formative teenage years, we’re unable to tell things in confidence, and therefore to be ourselves.

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[…] have no privacy means you can never be yourself, may not even be able to form an identity of your own. To live under a magnifying glass your whole life, always feeling watched, causes stress which is […]

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