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 * file: journal_karbytes_25march2026_p0.txt
 * type: plain-text
 * date: 25_MARCH_2026
 * author: karbytes
 * license: PUBLIC_DOMAIN
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Privacy is strategic concealment (particularly of information). 

Privacy is implemented through the "instruments" of temporal and spatial distance (between the object being "hidden" and potential observers or registers of that object) and/or through intentional creation of "entropy" sufficient to obscure the "line of sight" between the object being "hidden" and potential observers or registers of that object.

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karbytes_0: "Do you think that definition of privacy you just wrote the first instance of its kind?"

karbytes_1: "Not necessarily, but I generally default to the assumption that I am the first information processing agent to generate that exact sequence of words (at least in the universe I appear to myself to be living inside of).