Privacy is an issue that society is required to deal with on a daily basis.
             Individuals often question the extent to which one's right to privacy should be allowed to go. In attempting to find the right level of privacy, people must keep in mind issues such as public safety. There seems to be an inverse relationship between status and privacy. The more notoriety and money that a person gains, the less privacy he generally will have.
             "Privacy" is the quality or state of being apart from company or observation and is the freedom from unauthorized intrusion. The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences states that a positive aspect of privacy is that it "insulates the individual from social pressures to compliance and generally reduces the need to act in ways that are likely to gain the approval of others" ("privacy"). Beneficial effects of privacy are reduced exposure to theft, increased personal security, freedom from judgment for harmless activities currently not popular, and reduced conflicts between people with different beliefs. While many of the characteristics of privacy are beneficial to the individuals in some situations, such as the work place, privacy may work against the individual as well as the group
             Groups of people tend to work better when there generally is less or no privacy. For example, employees at a job can commit crimes and slack off on the job much easier when they have some privacy as opposed to when none is present. An element of privacy that is not beneficial is the facilitation of crime. Crime can be committed much easier when employees are not being monitored. This is a good illustration of how profit and privacy are related. The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences later went on to say that a negative characteristic of privacy is that it promotes seclusion between people. History has repeatedly shown, that the human species accompli...