1993-11-11 - Re: Privacy, Property, Cryptography (long)

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From: Dark <unicorn@access.digex.net>
To: jkreznar@ininx.com
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From: Dark <unicorn@access.digex.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 93 02:34:04 PST
To: jkreznar@ininx.com
Subject: Re: Privacy, Property, Cryptography (long)
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And this intuition of yours seems to be reflected in law and statute to a
greater degree than you're allowing elsewhere in your essay.  For example, U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis said that the "right to be left alone is
the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men."[1]Yet y
our opening lines are
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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.

> Privacy was in a Hohfieldian manner, a privilege.
 
Hohfield sounds like an interesting read.  Can you give a reference?
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Let me dig up the bio on him and drop it here.


-uni- (Dark)





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