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===Limited access=== Limited access refers to a person's ability to participate in society without having other individuals and organizations collect information about them.{{sfn|Solove|2010|p=19}} Various theorists have imagined privacy as a system for limiting access to one's personal information.{{sfn|Solove|2010|p=19}} [[Edwin Lawrence Godkin]] wrote in the late 19th century that "nothing is better worthy of legal protection than private life, or, in other words, the right of every man to keep his affairs to himself, and to decide for himself to what extent they shall be the subject of public observation and discussion."{{sfn|Solove|2010|p=19}}<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Godkin|first1=E.L.|author-link1=Edwin Lawrence Godkin|title=Libel and its Legal Remedy|journal=[[Atlantic Monthly]]|date=December 1880|volume=46|issue=278|pages=729–739|url=http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=atla;cc=atla;rgn=full%20text;idno=atla0046-6;didno=atla0046-6;view=image;seq=0735;node=atla0046-6%3A1}}</ref> Adopting an approach similar to the one presented by Ruth Gavison<ref name="transparency">{{cite journal|last1=Oulasvirta |first1=Antti |last2=Suomalainen |first2=Tiia |last3=Hamari |first3=Juho |last4=Lampinen |first4=Airi |last5=Karvonen |first5=Kristiina |date=2014 |title=Transparency of Intentions Decreases Privacy Concerns in Ubiquitous Surveillance |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264638054 |journal=Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking |volume=17 |issue=10 |pages=633–638 |doi=10.1089/cyber.2013.0585|pmid=25226054 }}</ref> Nine years earlier,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gavison|first1=Ruth|author-link1=Ruth Gavison|title=Privacy and the Limits of Law|journal=Yale Law Journal|date=1980|volume=89|issue=3|pages=421–471|doi=10.2307/795891|jstor=795891}}</ref> [[Sissela Bok]] said that privacy is "the condition of being protected from unwanted access by others—either physical access, personal information, or attention."{{sfn|Solove|2010|p=19}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bok|first1=Sissela|author-link1=Sissela Bok|title=Secrets : on the ethics of concealment and revelation|date=1989|publisher=Vintage Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-679-72473-5|pages=10–11|edition=Vintage Books}}</ref>
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