{
  "id": "privacy.social",
  "term": "privacy",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "privacy",
  "domain": "everyday sense",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state where own information remains confined within a boundary, limiting others' access to it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "boundary.limit",
      "information.knowledge",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "persist.continue",
      "see.visual",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "the boundary restricts the flow of information, preventing others from visually perceiving or acquiring it",
    "novel_properties": [
      "confined awareness",
      "asymmetric access",
      "persistent segregation of knowledge"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2018, Facebook restricted third-party app access to user data after the Cambridge Analytica scandal exposed personal information of 87 million users.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Swiss Federal Data Protection Act of 1992 legally confined personal data processing, requiring consent for information transfer across cantons.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A locked diary with a personal key, such as Anne Frank's notebook, kept thoughts invisible to others during her hiding in Amsterdam.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "privacies",
    "privacy"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition updated for accuracy and completeness: original omitted key concepts like 'persist.continue' and 'see.visual' necessary for 'preventing others from seeing' to function as a condition. Compo"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-privacy.social"
}