Clifford Longley’s column is one of those I turn to first in The Tablet. But “Privacy matters to people who are up to something they wish to hide” (6 September) is seriously inaccurate. Privacy matters to ordinary people who wish not to suffer discrimination based on innocent information about themselves (their health, relationships and opinions), and in particular who wish to disclose information about others to journalists, priests and public officials. Privacy is often an aspect of freedom of expression. We all need to speak to family, friends and work colleagues in private. Only then can we speak to them freely. Vulnerable people have even committed suicide following disclosures by supposed friends.The first English privacy statute was in 1361. The Justices of the Pe