ABSTRACT
Loss of privacy occurs when the limits one has set on acquaintance with his personal affairs are not respected. Privacy is lost in either of two ways. It may be given up, or it may be taken away. If one makes a public disclosure of personal matters or exposes himself under circumstances that do not contain elements of restriction on further communication, there is loss of control for which the person whose privacy is lost is himself responsible. Respect for privacy is required to safeguard our changes of mood and mind, and to promote growth of the person through self-discovery and criticism. In speaking of privacy and autonomy there is some danger that privacy may be conceived as autonomy. Such confusion has been signaled in legal literature by early and repeated use of the phrase “right to be let alone” as a synonym for “right of privacy.".
