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What's private depends on who you are and where you live

  • Written by Richard Wilk, Distinguished Professor and Provost's Professor of Anthropology; Director of the Open Anthropology Institute, Indiana University
What's private depends on who you are and where you liveIs privacy what you can't see, or where you don't look?Kamil Macniak/Shutterstock.com

Citizens and policymakers around the world are grappling with how to limit companies’ use of data about individuals – and how private various types of information should be. But anthropologists like me know that cultures vary widely in their views of...

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