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Most of us don’t parade around nude. Society has drilled into us that we should afford our private parts some privacy. Whether or not society was correct in doing so is immaterial; the net effect is that the vast majority of us remain clothed and take offense to uninvited requests to become unclothed. We want our privacy.

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Aycock, J. (2011). Introduction. In: Spyware and Adware. Advances in Information Security, vol 50. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77741-2_1

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