ABSTRACT
This book explores the Janus-faced features of privacy, and looks at their implications for the control of personal informa - tion, for sexual and reproductive freedom, and for democratic politics. It asks what, if anything, is wrong with asking women to get licences in order to get pregnant and have children, given that pregnancy and childbirth can seriously damage your health. It considers whether employers should be able to monitor the friendships and financial affairs of employees, and whether we are entitled to know whenever someone rich, famous or powerful has cancer, or had had an adulterous affair. It considers whether we are entitled to privacy in public and, if so, what this might mean for the use of CCTV cameras, the treatment of the homeless and the provision of public facilities such as parks, libraries and lavatories.
