“For years, I worked on the E.U.’s privacy policies, and I came to realize that we don’t know what privacy is. It’s a term we use every day, and it can make sense in context, but we can’t nail it down well enough to generalize. The closest we have come to a definition of privacy is probably “the right to be left alone,” ”

How does anyone reach the conclusion that privacy is the right to be left alone? Many times seemingly intellectual people confuse issues with contorted analysis such as this one about privacy, which is not a difficult concept to understand. It is not about being left alone; it is about not being monitored and recorded regardless of what is done with that information. Stop the gathering of the information in the first place.