privacy

privacy (ˈpraɪvəsɪ, ˈprɪvəsɪ)

—n
1.	the condition of being private or withdrawn; seclusion
2.	the condition of being secret; secrecy
3.	philosophy the condition of being necessarily restricted to a single person

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privacy definition

Where only the intended recipients can read a message.

Example sentences

Proponents of these privacy measures are pressing the right questions.

Public sharing of private lives has led to a rethinking of our current

conceptions of privacy.

Though the program was limited, it raised privacy hackles.

The plan would offer privacy protection, including encryption.

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"When society comes to value one child more truly, we shall have, for every community, a country homestead where that child can go, who needs special encouragement. It will not be a penal place, nor even a place of reform, but it will be held out, rather, as a dear delight and a reward. But when society values the child enough, and realises what the child means to the State, and what the home means to the child, it will provide even better, for then the child will have, in its own home, all that a home should give.... There will be safety. There will be the chance to be well, to be pure; room to grow and breathe in; the sacred privacy of the home circle—all those things that are the birthright of every child. And there will be, in some way, beauty, to which the soul of the child naturally turns, as does a plant to the light."

-Albion Fellows Bacon

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