Desire For Privacy Research Articles

Preferences for oral and injectable PrEP among qualitative sub-study participants in HPTN 084.

HPTN 084 compared the safety and efficacy of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB) to daily oral TDF/FTC for prevention of HIV-1 in uninfected African women. Like a similar trial in MSM/TGW (HPTN 083), the trial was stopped early for efficacy, expediting the need to consider introduction strategies for different populations. We examine survey and qualitative data from a four-country sub-study to examine oral and injectable PrEP acceptability and considerations for CAB access among African women. Participants completed baseline and follow-up surveys on HIV risk perception, sexual behavior. product acceptability and adherence during the blinded trial. Additionally, up to two in-depth interviews each with 73 sub-study participants explored product use and trial-related experiences, during the blinded and unblinded study periods. Using survey data, we classified participants as: engaged in female sex work (FSW), having multiple non-transactional partners, or monogamous. A study statistician identified participants' assigned study arm. We followed a thematic analysis process to read transcripts, develop a codebook and apply codes in NVivo to transcripts with intermittent intercoder reliability checks; using Excel matrices to explore differences across risk categories and study arms. Participants overwhelmingly preferred injections to pills, appreciating the ease, convenience, and privacy of a long-acting formulation. Many participants described challenges with contraceptive and/or study pill adherence, impeded by late night work, unexpected travel, or heavy drinking. Women in the TDF/FTC arm were more likely to describe side effects, compared to those in the CAB arm. Pain also varied widely by study arm. When considering post-trial access to CAB, limited PrEP knowledge, cost and concerns around stigma and poor service quality were potential access barriers. Women's desire for privacy and ease of use outweighed injectable concerns, resulting in a strong preference for CAB. Cost and accessibility will need to be addressed by implementation programs.

Adolescents' perceptions of privacy violations by parents, siblings, and friends.

Adolescence is a life stage beset by a growing desire for privacy. This study evaluated adolescents' experiences across four types of potentially privacy-invasive behaviors (PPIVBs) and within four different types of relationships. 158 adolescents (Mage = 16.9 years, SD = 1.0; 53.5% female) reported on the frequency of the PPIVBs, perceived control over the behaviors, secret/private information threatened by the behaviors, and feelings of privacy invasion produced by the behaviors. Privacy experiences were more similar across relationships than across types of behavior. Stronger feelings of privacy invasion were reported for PPIVBs involving electronics and information, for behaviors by family members, when behaviors occurred infrequently, when adolescents perceived greater control over whether the behaviors occurred, and when behaviors threated secret/private information.

Enumeration of Payphone Permutations

The desire for privacy significantly impacts various aspects of social behavior as illustrated by people’s tendency to seek out the most secluded spot when multiple options are available. In particular, this can be seen at rows of payphones, where people tend to occupy an available payphone that is most distant from those already occupied. Assuming that there are n payphones in a row and that n people occupy payphones one after another as privately as possible, the resulting assignment of people to payphones defines a permutation, which we will refer to as a payphone permutation. In the present study, we consider different variations of payphone permutations and enumerate them.

Healthcare experiences among Black and White sexual and gender minority cancer survivors: a qualitative study.

The purpose of this study was to explore healthcare experiences of Black and White sexual and gender minority (SGM) cancer survivors across the cancer care continuum. This was a qualitative analysis of two focus groups and eight individual interviews completed as part of a larger initiative using a community-engaged research approach to reduce cancer disparities in marginalized communities. There was a total of 16 participants in the study (9 were White, 7 were Black) and data were collected between 2019 and 2020. Three main themes emerged from the thematic analysis: strategically coming out, provider preferences, and health system challenges. Participants noted that they often came out through their support system, decided to come out based on the relevance of their SGM identity that they perceived, and expressed a desire for privacy. Lack of an accessible and competent PCP was tied to delayed cancer diagnosis and many participants voiced a preference for consistency when they found a provider they liked. Providers across specialties can address barriers for SGM patients by not making assumptions about patient sexual orientation or gender identity. Institutions should systematically collect sexual orientation and gender identity information. Primary care providers should be aware that due to resistance to switching from trusted providers, they may need to take greater initiative to facilitate cancer screenings for their patients when appropriate or take special care when making referrals to ensure they are using SGM-affirming providers. SGM cancer survivors often benefit from a cultivating relationship with a trusted PCP or other provider.

Privacy paradox for location tracking in mobile social networking apps: The perspectives of behavioral reasoning and regulatory focus

Social networking services (SNSs) have been collecting and analyzing users' personal data for the sake of personalization and customization, raising massive privacy concerns. Among the various types of privacy, personal location data are considered most sensitive, but are critical for the location-based features in mobile SNS applications. Drawing on behavioral reasoning theory and accounting for the privacy paradox, this study investigates the heterogeneous psychological mechanisms supporting and discouraging mobile SNS users from enabling location tracking in SNS applications. Based on a survey of young internet users in China, our analysis shows that, first, reasons for location tracking are insignificantly associated with intention to allow location tracking but reasons against are negatively related to intention. Furthermore, for individuals with higher desire to share, reasons for and attitude have the stronger associations with intention, while the moderating effect of desire for privacy is insignificant. We make research contributions by examining the antecedents of the reasoning process, as well as the moderating role of desire to share, to account for the privacy paradox. We also contribute to behavioral reasoning theory by introducing regulatory focus-based antecedents to the reasoning process. We offer key practical suggestions for SNS providers and policymakers.

Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in Divided Germany

In Local Lives, Parallel Histories: Villagers and Everyday Life in Modern Germany, Marcel Thomas aims to get past divided histories of postwar Germany that set up one (usually the West) as the “ideal” against which we should measure and understand the other's relative success. He finds many similarities between the perceptions and experiences of villagers east and west of the Berlin Wall.Thomas employs the German historical framework of Alltagsgeschichte (“the history of everyday life”) to better understand how two villages, in different regions of divided postwar Germany, negotiated changes in their communities in the years after World War II.He focuses on Ebersbach, in the Federal Republic of Germany, an erstwhile “market town” in Baden-Württemberg, and Neukirch, in the German Democratic Republic, a modernizing village in Saxony. Ebersbach and Neukirch are not mirror images of one another, divided only by their divergent experiences of national government between 1945 and 1989; they are, rather, similar but unique, embedded in the distinct local histories of their regions.Thomas draws on a variety of sources, including local historians and museums, in constructing his argument about the fundamentally similar nature of village life and politics in the two Germanys. One of his most interesting sources comes in the form of the oral history interviews he conducted with residents of Ebersbach and Neukirch over a three-year period.The text is composed of six thematic chapters, each of which deals with some aspect of the postwar development of the German village. Their common goal is to complicate the narrative of centrally directed change enacted at the local level and passively accepted by local communities. Instead, Thomas argues for a “give-and-take” (as he titles chapter 5) between national leadership in Bonn and Berlin, local government and bureaucracies, community activists, and ordinary citizens.In the first and sixth chapters, Thomas evaluates the twin processes of village modernization (chapter 1) and community engagement with the local, regional, and national past (chapter 6). Villagers in both Ebersbach and Neukirch looked to a modern future and understood that rural modernization represented a key component of national progress in Cold War Germany. Neither group posed an obstacle to modernization so much as they hoped to shape it to their benefit. Accordingly, while forging “Modern Villagers” entailed the development of a vision of the future by those within and outside the community, the final chapter shows how villagers marshaled their past to bolster that vision through the production of local histories.Chapters 2 and 3 deal with the shifting boundaries of the village community as it was reconceived in the postwar world and reconstituted from within by longtime residents and by newcomers. Thomas points to common contradictions in both Ebersbach and Neukirch, noting a tension between a growing desire for privacy, associated with modernity, and a nostalgia for the close-knit rural communities of the past. Both communities, too, struggled to fully integrate outsiders, including groups of ethnic German refugees, foreign workers, and urban commuters (chapter 3).Chapters 4 and 5 deal with the communities’ engagement with and perceptions of political developments in the village, region, Germany, and the world. Thomas challenges the idea that only border communities and Berlin were cognizant of their role in the broader dynamics of the Cold War and shows that Ebersbachers and Neukirchers engaged with the other Germany, often using it as a metric for the relative progress achieved by their own community. As might be imagined in a book that focuses on the village, Thomas emphasizes the effects of local, “bottom-up” efforts to negotiate political change, both as a response to “top-down” politics and as a catalyst for them.Thomas's Ebersbachers and Neukirchers are emphatically villagers, not peasants, and seldom farmers. Those who are interested in the modernization of farming techniques, the status of agriculture in postwar Germany, or the role of agribusiness in shifting the economic landscape of rural Germany might look elsewhere. Rural Germans, however, have long been linked to both food production and to an idealized past, and Thomas is attuned to how this symbolic baggage might affect the self-perceptions of rural communities in a postwar world in which nostalgia and autarky are no longer central concerns of the state.Thomas's monograph is especially useful as a model for linking local histories to national and transnational narratives. He resists simply projecting changes at the national level onto the local one, even as the national and the international are ever-present in the minds of the villagers.

Novel Clues about Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Childhood: Newly Uncovered Lettres de Cachet Reveal Maternal Dérèglement de Mœurs

Abstract: Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (1713-1792), one of the foremost proto-feminist women writers of Enlightenment France, has offered conflicting and enigmatic information about her childhood. While her desire for privacy regarding her own biography can be understood and respected, when (new) personal details elucidate her published oeuvre, both her fiction and her correspondence, they hold a particular fascination for readers and scholars alike. This essay will shed light on a notoriously blank page of Riccoboni's life, her childhood, through two newly uncovered lettres de cachet pertaining to her mother Marie Marguerite Dujac and her grandfather Jean Baptiste Dujac. An analysis of these documentsas lettres de cachet through the lens of royal and paternal authority as well as female agency, will provide new context for Riccoboni's biography regarding her relationship with her mother and her childhood, as well as offer important clues for some essential elements of her fiction, including her proto-feminism.

Experiences of Health Departments on Community Engagement and Implementation of a COVID-19 Self-testing Program.

Health departments (HDs) work on the front lines to ensure the health of their communities, providing a unique perspective to public health response activities. Say Yes! COVID Test (SYCT) is a US federally funded program providing free COVID-19 self-tests to communities with high COVID-19 transmission, low vaccination rates, and high social vulnerability. The collaboration with 9 HDs was key for the program distribution of 5.8 million COVID-19 self-tests between March 31 and November 30, 2021. The objective of this study was to gather qualitative in-depth information on the experiences of HDs with the SYCT program to better understand the successes and barriers to implementing community-focused self-testing programs. Key informant (KI) interviews. Online interviews conducted between November and December 2021. Sixteen program leads representing 9 HDs were purposefully sampled as KIs. KIs completed 60-minute structured interviews conducted by one trained facilitator and recorded. Key themes and lessons learned were identified using grounded theory. Based on perceptions of KIs, HDs that maximized community partnerships for test distribution were more certain that populations at a higher risk for COVID-19 were reached. Where the HD relied predominantly on direct-to-consumer distribution, KIs were less certain that communities at higher risk were served. Privacy and anonymity in testing were themes linked to higher perceived community acceptance. KIs reported that self-test demand and distribution levels increased during higher COVID-19 transmission levels. HDs that build bridges and engage with community partners and trusted leaders are better prepared to identify and link high-risk populations with health services and resources. When collaborating with trusted community organizations, KIs perceived that the SYCT program overcame barriers such as mistrust of government intervention and desire for privacy and motivated community members to utilize this resource to protect themselves against COVID-19.

Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theatre Labor by Christin Essin

Reviewed by: Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theatre Labor by Christin Essin David Bisaha Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theatre Labor. By Christin Essin. University of Michigan Press, 2021. Hardcover $80.00, Paper $34.95, eBook $34.95. 286 pages. 13 illustrations. Christin Essin's Working Backstage is a major contribution to US theatre labor studies. Since 2013, Essin has been interviewing backstage theatre workers and observing their work in situ; here, she combines that ethnographic work with cultural history, textual analysis, and archival research, all to "make visible the social, political, and economic practices of this professional community" (9). The main subject is the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and three of its New York City locals, chiefly the main stagehands union, IATSE Local One. She maps interviewees' careers and general union history, and she prioritizes the histories of those workforce members who have been hidden or excluded historically – women, people of color, and those who do not come from backstage worker families (Essin uses the casual union term "orphans"). Similarly, Essin discusses newly unionized groups, most notably child guardians but also wardrobe workers, alongside more familiar stagehand roles. The book does not culminate in a single critical argument, but rather documents and amplifies these workers' "continued struggles for industry recognition" (17), and models multiple ways that theatre historians might engage with backstage labor more seriously. By far, Essin's work is the most temporally and methodologically wideranging in US theatre labor studies. Part 1, "Backstage Narratives," introduces the project and lays out its main characters. The introduction is compact, informative, and engagingly written. Essin lays out a good case for the need for backstage ethnography—which does not yet exist in theatre studies—and draws inspiration from earlier theatre labor studies, particularly works by Timothy White, Tracy Davis, and Natasha Korda. To their primarily historical and archival approaches, Essin adds ethnography and oral history, derived from eleven in-theatre observations and over one hundred interviews. Essin's interviewees explain the careers of Local One "legacy" workers, the challenges of starting a career as an "orphan," the career paths of women and Black men in Local One, and the work of child guardians, hair and makeup artists, and dressers. In each section, Essin balances union history with her subjects' personal experiences. It is important to know, for instance, that dressers, guardians, and hair and makeup artists are affiliated with IATSE but organized under two separate IATSE Locals, not Local One; at the same time, Essin's vivid observations and lively writing voice make the workers and their labor shine through the historical context. In Part 2, "Backstage Histories," two chapters narrate Local One's history. In chapter 2, Essin discusses a history compiled by union historian Jene Youtt to value the work of the "laborer historian, [who] writes with limited resources during hours outside the daily work responsibilities of their professional trade," but also to note that the official, commemorative purpose for which Youtt began his work [End Page 107] ultimately led to flattened history (69). Then, Essin considers Local One's 1986 centennial celebration dinner, captured on video for a never-released documentary. In Essin's words, the tapes belie a union "jovial," with a "desire for privacy" and "intense pride in their work skills," possessing "astute political savvy and dignified practicality" (96). More than this, though, the scrutiny placed on relatively few sources illustrates the paucity of backstage labor documentation. Essin makes much of scant material, but this chapter is less engaging than the ethnographies. Similarly, in chapter 3, Essin offers a mostly periodical-driven history of media bias against Local One in New York City press. Acknowledgment of the negative images of theatre unions as "overpaid, underworked, and ineffectual" is necessary, even if the overall conclusion feels familiar (101). It is unfortunate that the scope and archival basis is so narrow—limited, mostly, to the New York Public Library's press clippings file—and that the bright style of Essin's earlier writing dims somewhat. The third, and most widely applicable chapter in Part 2 (chapter 4) combines the book's signature concept, "backstage choreographies...

I Mind My Own Business and Expect Others to Do the Same: Conversations About Declining Financial Capacity

Introduction: One of the smartest ways to prepare for declines in financial decision making capacity is to appoint an agent under power of attorney for finances and to share important financial information and preferences with trusted family or friends. Yet only 12% of older Americans with children think that they’ll need help with their finances as they age, and more than half are uncomfortable talking about their finances with children. Method: We conducted four in-depth interviews with older adults and four focus groups with Black, Latino, low income, and low-middle income adults aged 65 and older. An average of 9 participants were in each 2-hour focus group. Results: Barriers included lack of awareness, denial of future changes in capacity, lack of trustworthy surrogate decision-makers, shame about one’s financial situation, desire for privacy, fear of being a burden, and resistance to overtures by children. Barriers differed by ethnicity and socioeconomic status, with lower income older adults having less knowledge of advance planning and Powers of Attorney. Implications: Significant education is needed around Powers of Attorney and how to begin the advance planning process. Study findings informed the Thinking Ahead Roadmap, a guide to facilitate planning and communication around future money management. The Roadmap uses an empowerment framework to motivate individuals to appoint trusted financial advocates and prepare them for a smooth transition in money management, thereby reducing risk of exploitation, costly mistakes, and family conflict.

Abortion attempts without clinical supervision among transgender, nonbinary and gender-expansive people in the United States

BackgroundTransgender, nonbinary and gender-expansive (TGE) people face barriers to abortion care and may consider abortion without clinical supervision.MethodsIn 2019, we recruited participants for an online survey about sexual and reproductive...

Profiling adopters (and non-adopters) of a contact tracing mobile application: Insights from Australia

ObjectiveMany governments are using contact tracing mobile applications (CTMAs) yet public adoption of such systems has been relatively low. The main objective of this paper is to profile adopters (and non-adopters) of Australia’s COVIDSafe CTMA. Materials and methodsWe use latent profile analysis to examine predictors of CTMA download behaviour. Specifically, we draw on a representative Australian sample (N = 2575) to examine the interplay between age, education, income, dispositional desire for privacy and political ideology on download behaviour. We examine trust in government as a mediating mechanism between profiles and download behaviour. ResultsOur analysis produces seven profiles. Trust in government mediates the relationship between most profiles and download behaviour. A combination of wealth and education appear to be key explanatory factors of CTMA download behaviour. Two profiles -- comprising individuals with high income and education -- had the highest rates of download behaviour. Profiles with low download percentages comprised politically left-leaning participants with average to low income and education. ConclusionOur findings clearly indicate the profiles of people who are (not) likely to download a CTMA. Practical ways to improve widespread adoption include providing structural support to the more vulnerable members of society, making clear the societal benefits of downloading CTMAs, and engaging in bipartisan promotion of such apps.

Stimulating Economic Growth by Unlocking the Nonrival Potential of Data - Review, Synthesis and Directions for Future Research

Data as a resource has proven to be a game changer for firms. With a growing global data sphere, differences across platforms with exclusive access to big data intensify. Against this background, Jones and Tonetti (2020) model access to big data as an allocation problem for enhancing social welfare. They focus on the nonrivalry of data to show that the same dataset should be available across firms to spur innovation. Yet, this contrasts with the desire for privacy by individuals and the fear of creative destruction by firms. We provide a systematic literature review to inform IS research on options to solve the problem of big data misallocation. Specifically, we synthesize academic progress for improving data-sharing approaches. We show that technological options will be available soon that will let individuals decide to whom they grant access to their data. Such options will allow producing welfare-enhancing outcomes from big data.

Russian Girls Construct Freedom and Safety in Pandemic Times

In this article we analyse ten structured interviews with girls aged 15 to 19 from Moscow and St. Petersburg. We look at how the girls are dealing with the fundamentally new and dangerous situation created by the coronavirus pandemic and note that they are looking for a social and psychological space for themselves in which they can create and experience stability and safety. They are more concerned about security than ever before, while being, at the same time, very sensitive to restrictions on their freedom and agency. Girls’ clear desire for privacy, fuelled by the pandemic’s increasingly rapid invasion of their digital space, reinforces their urge towards agency and their understanding of freedom as autonomy.

At-home telemedicine for medical abortion in Australia: a qualitative study of patient experiences and recommendations

IntroductionThis study aimed to explore patient experiences obtaining a medical abortion using an at-home telemedicine service operated by Marie Stopes Australia.MethodsFrom July to October 2017, we conducted semistructured in-depth telephone...

Data capitalism and the user: An exploration of privacy cynicism in Germany

Ever since empirical studies found only a weak, if any, relationship between privacy concerns and privacy behavior, scholars have struggled to explain the so-called privacy paradox. Today, a number of theoretical arguments illuminate users’ privacy rationales, including the privacy calculus, privacy literacy, and contextual differentiations. A recent approach focuses on user resignation, apathy, or fatigue. In this piece, we concentrate on privacy cynicism, an attitude of uncertainty, powerlessness, mistrust, and resignation toward data handling by online services that renders privacy protection subjectively futile. We discuss privacy cynicism in the context of data capitalism, as a coping mechanism to address the tension between digital inclusion and a desire for privacy. Moreover, we introduce a measure for privacy cynicism and investigate the phenomenon based on a large-scale survey in Germany. The analysis highlights the multidimensionality of the construct, differentiating its relationships with privacy concerns, threat experience, Internet skills, and protection behavior.

Balancing the desire for privacy against the desire to hedge risk

Abstract An individual's desire to hedge risks, as implied by risk aversion, is accepted as a normative paradigm and documented as valid descriptively. Insurance markets satisfy this desire, wherein the individual's aversion to bear risk allows firms to demand a markup on the expected value of the insured loss. Insurance firms incrementally introduce digital monitoring technology into their policies, making policyholder's behavior transparent. We analyze the implications of such transparency insurance contracts for willingness to pay in a framed behavioral experiment and find that the loss of privacy in such contracts marginalizes the potential profits that insurers could earn on their policies. In particular, our results suggest that the reduction in willingness to pay from introducing digital monitoring is in the range of 25–50% of the expected loss. While an absolute as opposed to a relative monetary valuation concept of privacy appears more likely to explain our data, we cannot clearly confirm this conjecture empirically. Heterogeneous treatment effects for risk preferences are suggestive for increasing utility losses from transparency policies with increasing risk aversion but we also observe indications of nonlinearities in this relationship. Probability misperception is a salient characteristic of our experimental population, suggesting that profitability is less threatened under low-frequency risks as opposed to high-frequency risks.

ПОПУЛЯРИЗАЦІЯ СІЛЬСЬКОГО ТУРИЗМУ ЯК ПЕРСПЕКТИВНИЙ НАПРЯМ РОЗВИТКУ ТУРИСТИЧНОЇ ГАЛУЗІ УКРАЇНИ

The goal of the work was to identify awareness-raising measures and prospects for the development of rural tourism in Ukraine. The following research methods are used to achieve this goal: historical - when studying the origins of the tourist industry in Ukraine; analysis and synthesis - in the study of the dynamics of tourism activities; abstract-logical - at generalization of theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of the problem being investigated. The article examines the current state of Rural Tourism and the tourism industry of Ukraine as a whole. A number of functions have been analysed and highlighted that the tourism industry performs in the national economy. The concept of rural tourism is based on a theoretical synthesis and rural areas, agro-tourism and ecotourism. It has been determined that all types of tourism can be developed in Ukraine but this potential is under-exploited and, as a consequence, the development of the tourism industry isn`t dynamic and doesn`t grow rapidly. Analyzing the current state of rural tourism in Ukraine, a number of disadvantages and advantages were identified. The prospects for the development of the tourism sector in Ukraine, including through the popularization of rural tourism, are revealed. Rural tourism is motivated by the desire to change load due to urban hypodynamy of the urban pace of life and desire for privacy and recreation in nature, the rejection of social constraints, introduction to the national characteristics of everyday life; use of environmentally friendly products in food, clothing, cosmetics. It is determined that in rural areas it is appropriate to jointly develop areas of ECO - and agro-tourism, based on the ever-increasing interest and need for environmentally friendly recreation areas and environmentally friendly products. During the study of this problem, a number of main components of rural tourism are identified and promising directions for the development of rural tourism are proposed. The practical significance lies in the fact that the proposed measures can be used in the development of regional strategies for rural development and during the popularization of rural tourism among the population of Ukraine and abroad.

Family Protection Department (FPD) in Jordan: The Legal Arm to Protect Women and Children from Violence, Exploitation, and Abuse

Drawing on the facts that were coming from survivors and victims of domestic violence, sexual assaults and child abuse in Jordan and out of the challenges that social and legal personnel used to encounter while dealing with such cases, a holistic approach of practice was a crucial need. The Family Protection Department is a police department that was established to achieve this purpose. FPD today is one of the pioneering bodies in the MENA region that handles cases of gender-based violence, sexual assaults, domestic violence and child abuse in a one-stop service. This encourages people, who describe privacy and honor as deep values that shape their society, to report incidents of abuse since FPD fulfills their desire for privacy and confidentiality. This paper aims to shed light on the most important stages of the history of FPD establishment as experienced by myself as a police officer at that time. It also traces the emergence of police social work from the era of founding the Family Protection Department (FPD) of the Directorate of the Public Security in Jordan till 2019. The paper examines the most significant governmental and none governmental initiatives that have provided support for forensic social workers to reach out to at-risk children, abused children, and Domestic Violence clients. This paper also discusses the role of forensic social work in Jordan in advocating for the social service needs of abused children, those at risk of neglect and abuse, their families as well as of perpetrators.

Open (in)justice: privacy, open justice and human rights

Abstract The principle that court hearings must be open to the public is regarded as sacrosanct. It has recently been invoked by the Court of Appeal in MN v OP as the reason for refusing an application to anonymise the approval of an arrangement under the Variation of Trusts Act 1958 Act. Yet the reasons generally given for insisting on open justice as a matter of principle are unconvincing when applied to civil cases as opposed to criminal cases or those, such as judicial review, in which the power of the state is pitted against the individual citizen. If private citizens are free to resolve their disputes privately through arbitration or mediation, why should they not be allowed to have their cases heard by the court in chambers unless there is some special feature of the case requiring publicity? Why are anonymised judgments not sufficient to ensure that justice is administered fairly and in accordance with the law? Could not more use be made of reporting restrictions? In this article, it is argued that the courts should do more to protect the privacy of litigants, and should not bow to populist demands to pry into the affairs of others (particularly the very wealthy). If they do not, those who can afford to do so will choose arbitration, or litigate in off-shore jurisdictions that are more sympathetic to their reasonable desire for privacy.