What I propose is the addition of a "Privacy Zone". Here's how it works: Anyone who is not on the access list of the privacy zone is unable to enter it, or see into it. Or rather they do see in, but nothing appears to exist in the privacy zone. They do not get textures or prim data about anything within the area of the privacy prim. They do not even receive any indication that there is anybody present inside of the privacy prim. Objects of other people cannot get in, chat messages do not leave the privacy zone (text or voice). Whether or not external chat and voice should be allowed in should be a user-defined option. And, due to the need of privacy, the administrative status hack should not be allowed to be a viable means of bypassing the privacy zone.

Anyone else with ideas, suggestions, or constructive criticism, please post.

Additional Ideas:

• if you have granted another person permission to see your location on the map, then they should not be able to find you while you are inside of a privacy zone unless they are on the privacy zone's access list.
• Parcel owners could have multiple privacy zones, and control their access lists by script. This could, for example, allow renters in an apartment to have personal privacy, while being able to enable/disable the privacy zone when they wish.

Adult Content:

• Right now, the rule on adult content is that you can't have mixed-content areas. Meaning a mature region cannot have even a single adult-rated item. It must either remove such content, or switch to an adult region in order to allow it. These privacy zones would make mixed-ratings (IE: adult content parcels in mature regions) viable. Simply put, people who are not age-verified cannot see into parcels that block people without age-verification, as well as parcels marked adult.