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The Wikipedia section about Privacy's 'history' gives the briefest mention of Aristotle before jumping straight to the information age. How old is the "expectation of privacy" as we understand it in the West? Would a Greek, Roman, or Ancient Egyptian have had a reasonable expectation of it?

by /u/demuratrix in /r/AskHistorians

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