privacy
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Georgia’s experience was similar to Maya’s, another Finch user whose name has been changed for privacy.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
He also urged residents to "avoid speculation and allow the family and responders the privacy and respect they deserve".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
“The people in Lewisville, Texas have a reasonable expectation of privacy from police officers in Pampa, Texas, and yet they can observe all that data,” Little said.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
Junior sailors sleep in tiny bunks, known as racks, with little privacy or personal space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
They were stolen for a very particular collector, who wanted to enjoy them in the privacy of his own home.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Mass surveillance systems capture not just crimes, but the privacies of life: Where you go, whom you associate with, and the patterns of your daily interactions can be recorded and mapped.
From Slate ● Nov. 10, 2017
In a 2014 Supreme Court decision that made it harder for police to search cellphones without a warrant, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that the devices contained “the privacies of life.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2017
Modern cellphones “hold for many Americans the privacies of life,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for a united court.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017
Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts stated about mobile phones: “With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans ‘the privacies of life.’
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2015
In ordinary intercourse with his fellow-men he hid it away as one instinctively hides the privacies of the toilet.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
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