text: do people have the right to privacy? most people are concerned with their privacy, at least when it comes to their own privacy - but just what is privacy? that's a difficult question to answer, in part because the question of privacy is so complicated and filled with so many contradictions. there are many different kinds of privacy which we may or may not have a right to: right to protect personal data, right to privacy in personal decisions, and so forth. which, if any, do we really have a right to? all the above.