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History of the Right to Privacy in America

FOOTNOTES* HISTORY of the RIGHT to PRIVACY IN THE WHAT COULD BE MORE PATRIOTIC? 72 1787* US constitution limits federal power but gives no explicit guarantees of privacy. Earl Warren and Louis Brandeis publish "The Right to Privacy" in Harvard Law Review, promoting the "right to be let alone" in response to rise of photography and yellow journalism. 1890 48 countries sign UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights which includes: "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence." The Soviet Union, South Africa and Saudi Arabia, 5 others abstain. 1948 * Constitutional guarantee to privacy first becomes law with Supreme Court's Griswold v. Connecticut decision referring to "right to marital privacy" in its decision on contraceptive use. 1965 * Columbia University professor Alan Westin publishes Privacy and Freedom, and in 1972 "Databanks in a Free Society," which help to launch privacy movements in many democratic countries. 1967 * US Congress passes Privacy Act prohibiting federal agencies from secretly collecting personally identifiable information or disclosing it without written permission. 1974 1988 * Privacy Act amended to extend protections to automated computer matching. 2001 * Devastating attacks on World Trade Towers prompts creation of Dept. of Homeland Security and plants seeds for secret federal programs to track phone and online communications. * US privacy scandal breaks. Google, Facebook petition for right to disclose government subpoena requests. Twitter earns kudos for refusing to go along in the first place. 2013 JUNE American in origin and is a relatively new concept in human society, closely linked to the evolution of communications technology. OTHER INTERESTING • The Right to Privacy is considered Anglo- FACTS ABOUT PRIVACY • Many languages don't even have their own word for privacy, including Russian and Italian, which borrow the English word. TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR ONLINE PRIVACY! PROTECT and ENCRYPT | your communications with DOWNLOAD FREE and LEARN MORE HOTSPOT SHIELD VPN at http://www.hotspotshield.com/ protect-your-privacy-online Hotspot Shield Powered by AnchorFree

History of the Right to Privacy in America

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There has been much debate on whether or not the Right to Privacy appears in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Although the Constitution does not specifically mention the Right to Privacy, the ...

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