In Altman’s approach, three features of privacy are particularly important.
Firstly, privacy is inherently a social process. Secondly, a proper understanding
of psychological aspects of privacy must include the interplay of people, their social
world, the physical environment, and the temporal nature of social phenomena
(Altman 1990). Thirdly, privacy has a cultural context; specifically, privacy is a
cultural universal but psychological manifestations are culturally-specific