Privacy, Property, Cryptography (long)
Mike Godwin
mnemonic at eff.org
Thu Nov 11 05:43:30 PST 1993
Dark writes:
> The only statues giving any kind of "Right to privacy" that have
> any weight at all are full of holes. For the most part a right
> to privacy has been EXTRACTED from them, usually without much basis.
>
> Even Brandeis has his reservations (International News Service v.
> Associated Press) Again, the right to privacy is not constitutionally
> reserved, and is almost entirely a construction of common law.
As I recall, Dark, INS v. AP is copyright/First Amendment case, not a
privacy case. (International News Service was cribbing from AP stories.)
What does Brandeis say in this case that seems to be a reservation about
privacy rights?
--Mike
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