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Privacy as a legal construct is relatively recent. It's as old as the fourth amendment. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
by area51org 11y ago
Privacy as a legal construct is relatively recent.
It's as old as the fourth amendment.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
- schoen 11y agoIt wasn't called privacy then or analyzed as a right to privacy until 1890, although courts have agreed since then that "privacy" is part of what the fourth amendment protects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_%28article%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_%28articl... Sometimes courts have thought of the privacy protections in the fourth amendment as very narrow and specific. For example, they've carved out almost everything we do that's intermediated from fourth amendment privacy protections! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine