This Article offers a comprehensive survey of privacy dependencies\u2014the many ways that our privacy depends on the decisions and disclosures of other people. What
\nwe do and what we say can reveal as much about others as it does about ourselves, even when we don\u2019t realize it or when we think we\u2019re sharing information about ourselves alone.
\nWe identify three bases upon which our privacy can depend: our social ties, our similarities to others, and our differences from others. In a tie-based dependency, an observer learns
\nabout one person by virtue of her social relationships with others\u2014family, friends, or other associates. In a similarity-based dependency, inferences about our unrevealed attributes are
\ndrawn from our similarities to others for whom that attribute is known. And in difference-based dependencies, revelations about ourselves demonstrate how we are different from
\nothers\u2014by showing, for example, how we \u201cbreak the mold\u201d of normal behavior or establishing how we rank relative to others with respect to some desirable attribute. We
\nelaborate how these dependencies operate, isolating the relevant mechanisms and providing concrete examples of each mechanism in practice, the values they implicate, and the legal
\nand technical interventions that may be brought to bear on them. Our work adds to a growing chorus demonstrating that privacy is neither an individual choice nor an individual value\u2014
\nbut it is the first to systematically demonstrate how different types of dependencies can raise very different normative concerns, implicate different areas of law, and create different
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