Privacy as the right to be left alone or the right to control the ?ow of personal information has long been sacrificed when balanced against the cutting-edge imperatives of security, effciency, and innovation—so much so that privacy is often cast as an anachronistic value. Liberal privacy theory and the “notice and choice” model established on such theoretical foundation presuppose a fixed, one-dimensional, and unrealistic liberal self, which privacy then seeks to preserve. The right to privacy so characterized is only to preserve other important liberties such as intellectual and expressive freedoms. This article argues that, against the backdrop of the rapidly expanding modern surveillance society, the subject of privacy ought to be a situated and embodied self who is constructed by its social and cultural context; privacy shelters this subject from the surveillance power that seeks to render individuals and communities transparent and predictable. This should have important implications for information law and policy in the coming surveillance age.