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Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively.
Specific types of privacy include:
- Financial privacy, privacy relating to the banking and financial industries
- Information privacy, protection of data and information
- Internet privacy, the ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet and to control who can access that information
- Medical privacy, protection of a patient's medical information
- Neuroprivacy, protection regarding the imaging, extraction and analysis of neural data
- Political privacy, the right to secrecy when voting or casting a ballot
Privacy may also refer to: