I came up with a new word in class the
other day and it actually turned out to be pretty good. I had
planned on using these 'coined' entries to just post my rejects from
the urban dictionary but this word actually has some teeth.


In my Information Policy forbidden
talking about the different types of privacy. On the one side we had
physical privacy (the right to not be touched the right to avoid
bodily harm etc) and so I suggested that we needed another side. A
side that pertains to all of the intangible aspects of privacy.


Meta-Privacy pertains to all of the
information about yourself that you would like to keep private (or
wish you could). Examples include your medical records, financial
records, criminal record, your web-presence (what comes up when you
Google yourself?), sexual orientation, even what the neighbors down
the street are saying about you. These are all elements that would
fall under meta-privacy.
In essence, it's information about
yourself, some of which can be kept private and some of which cannot.