There is no natural or common right to privacy or confidentiality, other than may be acquired via some sort of contract or promise. There could be a legal right to it, of course --- one can invent legal rights to anything. There is a natural right to freedom of speech.Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑May 30th, 2022, 3:24 am
The much-vaunted American focus on 'freedom' of speech tends to distract us from other, possibly more important (?), rights. How about the right to privacy, or confidentiality, for a start? This is what we're discussing here, isn't it?
Information is knowledge. Any knowledge you possess remains private/confidential only as long as you reveal it to no one. If you reveal it, it will be either voluntarily or under duress, or via the use of force. If voluntarily, you may demand a promise from the person to whom you reveal it not to further disclose it. If obtained from you via duress or force --- say, by drugging you, threatening you, stealing it from you, or beating it out of you --- you have recourse for those violations of your rights. If revealed by a third party to whom you've conveyed it in confidence, you have civil recourse against that person.I think there should be some information that may not be made public under any circumstances, other that may only be made public with the explicit permission of the person concerned, and so forth. What justification could there be for any other course?
What other recourse do you think necessary?
"Three people can keep a secret --- if two of them are dead."
---Benj. Franklin