Too Much Privacy?

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Americans enjoy vastly more privacy today than their ancestors did. When people are able to live large portions of their lives outside the watchful eye of others, there are few traditional bases for trust. In the place of intrusive methods of ensuring conformity that relied on family members and neighbors to closely monitor and supervise one another, new and more effective methods have arisen and will continue to arise. The underlying theme in the expansion of personal privacy has been a “separation from family and neighbors.” Therefore, the consequence of increasing amounts of privacy is the development of sophisticated and reliable methods of detecting deviance and secrecy that do not depend on family members. What most perceive to be the gradual “loss of privacy” in this century is actually the development of such safeguards.

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