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by tremon 1118 days ago
privacy (am I unobserved)

That's not the common definition of privacy. Rather, privacy is having the agency to control which parts of your life to share with which other people. It's a freedom of expression: you are free to decide which part of your personality to express at which time.

Having control over who is observing you is a requisite but not sufficient.