 Decisional uses of “privacy” featured in this section are disfavored by some philosophers. They view the term “privacy” as more clearly and properly suited to informational and physical uses, which they view as central, paradigmatic or core. On the other hand, the decisional use of privacy has bona fide conceptual roots in Greek and Roman antiquity’s public/private distinction, marking a boundary between affairs of politics and government (res publicae) and affairs of the household (re privatae). 