What is privacy
2.1 — Speculative Design
What is the privacy?
privacy
ˈprɪvəsi,ˈprʌɪvəsi/
noun
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a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people.
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the state of being free from public attention.
Great explanation of the subject we can find on the Privacy International’s website: https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/54
But what exactly could be considered as private information? For everyone, there are personal understanding of the boundaries. There are also some classifications, such as ISO: http://www.iso27001security.com/ISO27k_Model_policy_on_information_classification.pdf or custom policies of particular organisations: http://www.weber.edu/iso/dataclassification.html
A nice video by Privacy International could explain a bit more about privacy: