The concept of privacy places a limit on the flow of personal information and channels it. It endows each individual with the right to stop, restrict, or otherwise control the flow of his or her personal information. The right to privacy, however, is only a partial right, not an absolute one. As a result, any attendant duty to confidentially is also partial. Under certain conditions pledges of confidentiality may be breached.
Rights also entail responsibilities.
Each individual also has a responsibility to assert their right to privacy and to take reasonable precautions to assure it. A person must be active, not passive in protecting his or her rights. For example, given the current state of surveillance technologies taking precautions such as locking one's doors and putting up blinds, etc., perhaps even using jamming devices, becomes the responsibility of the individual. Secrecy is one of the tools a person uses to protect his or her privacy. Various technologies exist today to help keep things secret.