Privacy: Birthright or Privilege?

Well considering that when you are born, you have absolutely NO privacy (stark naked, spanked by strangers and all that), I'd say it's not so much a birthright as something one claims like a throne won in combat.

Privacy: I've been told it's mostly a Western concept. Yet we've got all these "private" spaces..like cars, for example, interacting in completely exhibitionistic--exhibitionary..exhibition-like..i don't know the proper term to use here--voyeuristic capacities. Not to mention situations like driving down Lake Shore Drive. You can see into so many homes at once it's creepy.

I'd say neither. It's more of a "categorical imperative" thing.