Rather than fearing the unknown stranger, young adults are more wary of the “known other”—parents, school teachers, classmates, etc.—for fear of “the potential for the known others to share embarrassing information about them”; 83 percent of the sample group cited at least one known other they wanted to maintain their privacy from; 71 percent cited at least one known adult. Strikingly, seven out of the 10 participants who reported an incident when their privacy was breached said it was “perpetrated by known others.
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