Barker White
MC-400 WED
Privacy: Chapters 7 & 8
What is privacy? What makes our lives private? Privacy is a law today that has not been
known for very long. The idea of privacy that everyone has running through their minds is just to
be left alone. In reality what constitutes the crossing of the privacy line. It wasn't until 1890
when two men wrote in the Harvard Law Review about the "The Right to Privacy.? The two
men were Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, the two were young lawyers who had the
sense to right papers on what they thought were Americans rights to privacy. After their ideas
were published they attempted to pass their knowledge on to the court systems asking to make
laws that would follow their papers. Most court systems did not accept there law until 13 years
later when the state of New York passed the first privacy law. The law prohibited the commercial
exploitation of an individual (Pember 240).
The......
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