&gt; Do you expect privacy in the workplace?<p>Yes. And I am in the position to demand it, or take another position. So we get a privacy divide within society: cleaners, waiters etc don&#x27;t have an expectation of privacy, those higher up do.<p>&gt; Do you expect privacy when you&#x27;re in a shopping mall?<p>No, everybody can walk in and out at any time.<p>&gt; You&#x27;re in a building controlled by someone else, no renting going on. What is your rule for when privacy is expected?<p>Well, you have touched upon that yourself in your previous question: if a place is open to public you can not expect privacy obviously. When you are in a private place, the default should be to expect privacy unless explicity noticed otherwise.<p>I feel like you are actually advocating some 1984 here on freakin&#x27; HN!