ABSTRACT
We have seen that protections for privacy can reflect people’s claims to freedom, although privacy inevitably constrains what we know about each other, what we can say about each other, and what we may do to each other. We have also seen that privacy can protect the equality and dignity of indi - viduals by protecting them from arbitrary forms of hostility and punishment, as well as from unfair aspersions on their character, judgement and motivation. This gives us some reason to think that people should be entitled to a good deal of latitude in the conduct of their sexual, familial and domestic affairs, because these are all areas of life in which we are peculiarly tempted to question the wisdom, virtue and decency of others, and too readily to assume the beneficence, selfevidence and validity of those forms of behaviour with which we are familiar, or to which we subscribe.
