which model of democracy might correlate with the freedom-oriented con-
cept of privacy is crucial. Moreover, recent conXicts concerning restrictions
on privacy have made it clear not only that Western governments are quick to
restrict rights to privacy when the security of the state is at issue, but also that
the citizens themselves do not seem to set great store by the protection of
their privacy—neither from state intrusion, nor on the Internet, nor in the
media. If the normative connection between autonomy and privacy is right,
then this indiVerence towards privacy is also an indiVerence towards auton-
omy. Yet democracy relies upon citizens who value their autonomy, both in
public and in private. Threats to privacy, therefore, are always also threats to
democracy.
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