The first is that privacy helps individuals maintain their
autonomy and individuality. People define themselves by exercising power over
information about themselves and a free country does not ask people to answer
for the choices they make about what information is shared and what is held
close. At the same time, this does not mean that public policy should shield
people from the costs of their choices. Individual privacy allows our many
cultures and subcultures to define for themselves how personal information
moves in the economy and society.
A second reason that privacy is important is because of its
functional benefits. This area has been especially slippery for policy-makers
because they have often use the term "privacy" to refer to one or
more of privacy's benefits.
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