The Legal Right to Privacy is Essential for Everyone!

 In an increasingly connected and crowded world, the courts and legislatures have developed a relatively new concept-a person’s right to privacy. This is a particularly “Western” concept, founded on the Enlightenment view of the individual being the focus of the society and possessing rights to live and act without interference from government so long as society is protected from unreasonable acts. In most of Asia and much of the Third World, this concept is not considered a high priority. 

 The right of privacy is, most simply, the right of a person to be let alone, to be free from unwarranted publicity, and to live without unwarranted interference by the public in matters with which the public is not necessarily concerned. 

Strutner v. Dispatch Printing Co., 2 Ohio App. 3d 377 (Ohio Ct. App., Franklin County 1982). 

 A person has an actionable right to be free from the invasion of privacy. Black v. Aegis Consumer Funding Group, Inc., 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2632 (S.D. Ala. Feb. 8, 2001). An actionable invasion of the right of privacy is the unwarranted appropriation or exploitation of one’s personality, the publicizing of one’s private affairs with which the public has no legitimate concern, or the wrongful intrusion into one’s private activities in such a manner as to outrage or cause mental suffering, shame or humiliation to a person of ordinary sensibilities.

It also includes, usually by statute, a Constitutional right to be left alone from governmental intrusion into one’s private affairs, though the rights and the needs of the government to provide protection to society are balanced.

This article shall review the basic concepts of the rights to privacy.

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