Privacy is human fiction and doesn't exist in the natural world

The concept of "privacy" is distastefully and
disappointingly more evasive than neutrinos

Privacy is impossible in metaphysical terms. An all-seeing and all-knowing entity would negate privacy entirely because from the phrases "all-seeing" and "all-knowing," the entity in question would be able to look though every part of a particular subject, including aspects categorized under monikers like "private" and "secret." On the subject of fiction, imagining is an act of inferring a foreign universe. A fictional character is called a fictional character in our universe because he, she, or it is outside our local reality, which accounts for 4% of what human physicists call the "observable universe." When you are imagining a fictional character's "private moments," you are negating the subject's privacy entirely and the character in fiction doesn't care. At the same time, people from outside our universe see your "private moments" all the time and you have no concern about it because well, "fictional characters are not real." In our universe, scientists are looking into forces and entities increasingly beyond our human senses. One of those elusive entities is the neutrino. But even so, the public has no issue shouting out that elusive particles called neutrinos exist. There is no such thing as "privacy" throughout the multiverse.

Censorship and privacy have one thing in common: they are the same meaning actually, and that meaning is information control. "Censorship" is the dysphemism, while "privacy" is the euphemism. To support privacy rights really means to support the right to censorship. Privacy and censorship are two channels of the same essence. The popularity of the word "privacy" and the notoriety of the word "censorship" is shaped by how people assign meanings to the two words. It is called "privacy" when the subject conceals, hides, or suppresses certain kinds of information about itself. It is called "censorship" when the subject conceals, hides, or suppresses certain kinds of information from reaching certain kinds of audiences or listeners. "Privacy" and "censorship" differ only in the differences between the sender and the receiver. Cosmetic, isn't it? Psst! "Privacy" and "secrecy" are also the same entity, only that "secrecy" is the stronger version or, like "censorship," a stronger word for "privacy."

Privacy doesn't exist in the natural world. Most animals have no concept of privacy. Plants, fungi, and protists have no such concept either. Archaea and bacteria have no concept of privacy. With respect to all life on the earth, only one species on only one kingdom of eukaryotes subscribes to the fiction of privacy, so much so, as if they cannot exist without that concept. In other words, privacy is a distinctly human institution with origins in early modern Europe. The institution of privacy was inspired by the need for a more presentable public image, which in turn demanded hiding or suppressing certain aspects from other people. The fear of being judged is another major contributor to the rise of the institution of privacy.

There is a public manifesto that calls for the abolition of the concept of privacy, describing the concept as discriminatory, technologically unsupportable, and a hallmark of able-bodied entitlement. The manifesto instead advocates alternative forms of data control. One of those alternatives is something called data sovereignty, in which a community, instead of an individual, holds significant power over the data about itself or its beneficiaries or participants. Supporters of the concept of data sovereignty argue that communally held data are easier to audit and correct.

References

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• Lim, Elisha; Lisker, Mareike; Hess, Lukas; Engeler, Malte; Friedman, Leah M., Lingel, Jessa; Ali, Muna-Udbi (21 January 2025). "Abolish privacy". First Monday.
• Patel, Sunny (21 June 2016). "Privacy: The Social Construct". The Odyssey Online.