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Our right to privacy should not be confused with access to absolute privacy. Absolute privacy is not possible in today's society without significant tradeoffs. Instead, privacy requires that in our dealings with institutions, we can have the following questions addressed:

- Who is collecting information about me and my family?

- What exactly is being collected?

- Why is it being collected?

- How long will it be kept?

- Who is it shared with?

- Can we opt out?

- Can we request to be forgotten and how?

You should take privacy seriously in as much as you should demand your institutions to disclose this information to you and allow you to make an informed decision as to the tradeoffs you may be making.