Keep Out--The Journal of Electronic Privacy

[Alan Westrope]

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>                               Keep Out
>                   The Journal of Electronic Privacy
> 
>      There is a well-established constitutional right to privacy in the United
> States.  We have this right today because of the wisdom and forethought of our
> founding fathers.

Odd, but my copy of the Constitution (w/amendments) doesn't even contain
the word "privacy," let alone any mention of a "right to privacy."  (*Damn*
these variorum editions!)  There is the Fourth Amendment, of course, but
the right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures is not
synonymous with the right to privacy, IMO.

I believe it was in Katz v. U.S. (1967) that the Supreme Court first
enunciated the doctrine of a "reasonable expectation of privacy."  It's
interesting that it took the advent of telecommunications to bring this
issue to the fore -- Katz was a wiretapping case.  Of course,

#define IM_A_LAWYER  FALSE

And I may be wrong about all this, but it's too nice to stay inside and
confirm my facts.  :-)


Alan Westrope                  <awestrop at nyx.cs.du.edu>
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