Private Privacy

Private Privacy

What's the difference between and

Adjective
( en adjective )
Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=( Jonathan Freedland )
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly )
, title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted
, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

Not in governmental office or employment.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=( Peter Wilby )
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly )
, title= Finland spreads word on schools
, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.

Not publicly known; not open; secret.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=( Margery Allingham ), title=( The China Governess )
, chapter=20 citation
, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.

Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.

Intended only for the use of an individual, group, or organization.

Not accessible by the public.

Not traded by the public.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=( The Economist )
, title= Engineers of a different kind
, passage= Private -equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

Secretive; reserved.

(US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.

Synonyms
* ( done in the view of others ): secluded
* ( intended only for one's own use ): personal
* ( not accessible by the public ):

Noun
( en noun )
The lowest rank of the army.
A soldier of the rank of private.
( in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
(obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
( Shakespeare )
(obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
* Ben Jonson
Nor must I be unmindful of my private .
(obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
* Shakespeare
Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private .
(obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
* Shakespeare
What have kings, that privates have not too?
A private lesson.
If you want to learn ballet, consider taking privates .

Synonyms
* ( genitals ) bits, private parts

Derived terms
* in private
* privacy
* private language
* private parts
* private property
* private stock
* public-private partnership

Statistics
*
1000 English basic words
----

Noun
The state of being private; the state of not being seen by others.
:
*
*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

Related terms
* antiprivacy
* private

See also
* mind one's own business
----

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License; additional terms may apply.
See Wiktionary Terms of Use for details.

Firefox 56 is no longer supported. Some features of this site may not display correctly.

About Us

News Center

News Center

Blogs

For Media

JustGrants News & Updates

Justice Today Podcast

JUSTINFO Newsletter

Monthly Features

Multimedia

News Releases

Publications

Social Media

Speeches

Testimony

Grants/Funding

Grants/Funding

Applicant Resources

Opportunities & Awards

Recipient Resources

Become an OJP Peer Reviewer

For Congress

NCJRS Library

NCJRS Library

Search the Library Collection

New OJP Resources

OJP Publications

About NCJRS

Topics

Topics

Civil Rights

Corrections

Courts

Crime

Crime Prevention

Drugs & Substance Use

Forensic Sciences

Justice System

Juvenile Justice

Law Enforcement

Research, Statistics & Evaluation

Sex Offenders

Tribal Justice

Victims of Crime

Training

Training

Justice Events

Territories Financial Support Center (TFSC)

Tribal Financial Management Center (TFMC)

Data

Home

About NCJRS

Virtual Library

Private Security, Privacy, and the Fourth Amendment

Journal of Security Administration Volume: 7 Issue: 1 Dated: (June 184) Pages: 9-13

This paper examines the impact of the private security industry on individual privacy rights.
Two controversial practices used by security personnel are addressed: (1) the visual surveillance of customers changing clothes in fitting rooms and (2) the interrogation of those suspected of proprietary crimes without advising them of their Miranda rights. It is suggested that all questionable private police practices be subject to review and prohibition, regardless of jurisdiction. One approach would be to interpret the fourth amendment as covering private as well as public police practices. It has long been established that the fourth amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures applies only to state action and not private conduct. Thus, security guards who have not been deputized, specially commissioned, or otherwise formally charged to protect public interests are routinely equated with private persons by courts. Even full-time peace officers have been treated as private citizens for fourth amendment purposes when they have been employed part-time as private security guards. These distinctions are made largely because legal authorities continue to define state action principally on the basis of status rather than function. As long as this remains the approach, the threats to individual privacy will continue to increase in proportion to the privatization of policing.
Presented at the 1983 Annual Meeting, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Antonio, Texas

Popular Topics

Private police
Right of privacy
Search and seizure
Police

MORE TOPICS

Archive

File a Complaint

Find a Career

Lookup OJP Grant Awards

State Administering Agencies

Submit an OJP FOIA Request

NEWS CENTER

Blogs

Justice Today Podcast

Media Contacts

News Releases

Speeches

Testimony

Secondary Footer link menu

Accessibility

Plain Language

Privacy Policy

Legal Policies and Disclaimer

No FEAR Act

Freedom of Information Act

USA.gov

Justice.gov

An official website of the United States government, Department of Justice.

Official websites use .gov

A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS

A lock (
Lock A locked padlock
) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
810 7th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20531

486 people found this article helpful

Andy Wolber is a former Lifewire writer who has been writing about technology for 15+ years. His focus is G Suite, iOS, and nonprofit sector apps.

Nadia Baloch is a fact checker, researcher, and writer with a background in psychology.

Lifewire is part of the Dotdash Meredith publishing family.

We've updated our Privacy Policy, which will go in to effect on September 1, 2022. Review our Privacy Policy

Get tech's top stories in 30 seconds:

We independently research, test, review, and recommend the best
products—learn more about
our process . If you buy something through our links, we may earn a commission.

You can take several steps to protect your privacy as you browse—but when we use the word privacy, we need to clarify what we mean. Most people can quickly identify at least four different types of privacy that may be a concern.

First, privacy may mean privacy from other people with access to your device . You might not want the fact that you searched for a gift for someone in your household to be discovered by someone that shares access to your computer. More concerning is the scenario where a person in an abusive relationship, for example, may not want someone else in the household to know they’ve searched for help.

Second, you could mean that you want privacy between sites you visit . At one point or another, you might have noticed that advertisements for an item you’ve searched for now appear on several sites you visit. That’s because activity and ad trackers often operate across multiple sites.

Third, you likely also want privacy over the connections from your device to a website . Your browser relies on your local network connection (often over Wi-Fi), which is routed through your internet service provider, then over the internet to a destination website. Each step in that process represents a potential place your privacy might leak information.

Fourth, many people also prefer privacy from governments . In some countries, government agencies actively monitor and/or restrict access to information on the internet. Human rights activists, academics, and innovators may wish to keep internet browsing activity unknown to officials.

But a fully private web browsing experience that reveals no information whatsoever about you as you browse can be difficult to achieve. Most web browsers reveal at least some basic information to sites you visit. To get some sense of what a site might “know” about you, visit What every Browser knows about you by Robin Linus and Cover Your Tracks from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. You’ll soon see that your browser may reveal your location, device hardware, software, and connection speed. These sites also can show whether or not your browser protects you from tracking ads or invisible trackers.

As of 2021, many people use Chrome on desktops, Safari on macOS and iOS, and either Chrome or Edge on Windows systems. While each of these companies takes steps to secure these browsers, people are not able to fully audit the code in these browsers. And since Google, Apple, and Microsoft do not provide access to all of the code, many computer privacy professionals reasonably consider these browsers to be less trusted than browsers for which all of the code is publicly available.

The five browsers featured below rely on open source code, with specific customizations and configurations made (or available) in favor of privacy. If you search a bit, you’ll find many more customized versions of browsers built from either the Firefox or Chromium code. The selected browsers are relatively widely used and frequently updated.

A long-established, widely-trusted, privacy-focused project
Versions available for all common platforms
Tor connections available for many major websites
Relies on a modified and customized Firefox code base
Slower than with a mainstream browser
You can’t use every site or service with the Tor Browser

Tor Browser optimizes for privacy at the cost of speed. Available for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux on the desktop, with versions also available on Android ( Orbot: Tor for Android ), iPhone, and iPad ( Onion Browser ), the app relies on a system of relay requests to make it difficult to detect and track information about your location and system. Because these requests route information to distinct locations, pages take longer to load than with a conventional browser that optimizes for speed.

You can also connect specifically to sites intended to be used with Tor. These sites, identified with a .onion suffix, are intended to permit people secure and private access to services that might not otherwise be feasible. For example, someone might use Tor to connect to DuckDuckGo.onion or Facebook.onion sites from within a country where access to these services is blocked for most browsers.

A fast browser with default settings configured for privacy
Best daily-use, privacy-oriented browser
Developers are technically very strong
Company behind the browser is relatively new

A comparatively new project, Brave takes the Chromium core code and customizes it with several private-by-default choices. For example, by default Brave blocks advertisements and trackers, and also strengthens the security of connections to sites from http:// to http
Husband Double Penetration
Bif Naked
Mature Anal Dp

Private Privacy

Report Page