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.
Nevertheless, it is also the responsibility of the fourth party to establish laws, policies and enforcement procedures so as to minimize the effects of unwanted surveillance on its citizens. In general, however, the permissible zones of privacy in a society are rooted deeply in a society's culture, its norms and its special geopolitical circumstances. Second party . The second party has a duty of confidentiality and secrecy. A fiduciary relationship is established in which personal information is entrusted by the first party to the second party.