Editing Privacy (section)

===Physical privacy===
Physical privacy could be defined as preventing "intrusions into one's physical space or solitude."<ref>{{cite book| title=Managing Privacy: Information Technology and Corporate America| author=H. Jeff Smith| year=1994| publisher=UNC Press Books| isbn=978-0807821473| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/managingprivacyi0000smit}}</ref> An example of the legal basis for the right to physical privacy is the U.S. [[Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment]], which guarantees "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures".<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3805/is_200206/ai_n9109326/pg_1 |work= Georgetown Law Journal |title= Fixing the Fourth Amendment with trade secret law: A response to Kyllo v. United States |year=2002 }}</ref>

Physical privacy may be a matter of cultural sensitivity, personal dignity, and/or shyness. There may also be concerns about safety, if, for example one is wary of becoming the victim of crime or [[stalking]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs14a-stalking.htm |title= Security Recommendations For Stalking Victims |publisher= Privacyrights |date= 11 January 2012 |access-date= 2 February 2008 |archive-date= 11 January 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120111081006/http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs14a-stalking.htm |url-status= dead }}</ref> There are different things that can be prevented to protect one's physical privacy, including people watching (even through recorded images) one's [[Physical intimacy|intimate behaviours]] or [[intimate part]]s and unauthorized access to one's personal possessions or places. Examples of possible efforts used to avoid the former, especially for [[modesty]] reasons, are [[clothes]], [[wall]]s, [[fence]]s, privacy screens, [[cathedral glass]], [[window covering]]s, etc.