Right to Privacy

Right of Privacy

What is Privacy? ‘To be left alone!’ The privacy of the person is the most important right. Privacy was one of the basic standards on which the nation was created. There was no issue of privacy in old days, people trusted each other, and they all knew their neighbors. People did not have to worry about terrorists, drunk drivers, hackers or any strangers coming in their life and change the way of living. However, the world has changed now. Where world is progressing, it is declining as well. Social Security helps a person secure his or her identity, but identity theft issues are growing day by day. Computers use is increasingly spreading and more and more people are connecting to Internet, but as Internet had continued to rise, the threat of cyber crimes is increasing as well. Nowadays, the one place people thought they were secured could be one of the most dangerous. In simple terms right of privacy is any basic right or freedom entitled to every human being and even government may not interfere. This right includes natural laws of life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression. This paper will focus on the is Privacy, United Privacy laws, Constitutional elements, court cases and some examples that invades the people’s privacy.

First, Ronald states, “Privacy is the expectation that confidential personal information disclosed in a private place will not be disclosed to third parties, when that disclosure would cause either embarrassment or emotional distress to a person of reasonable sensitivities.” Information can be considered as facts, images like photographs or videotapes, or personal opinions. The right of privacy is restricted to the those who are in the place where a person expect to be personal like home, hotel room, telephone booth, office, etc.

Early invasions of privacy involved assault, trespassing or eavesdropping . Before the invention of the new technologies like computers databases, cell phones, cameras, Internet, etc, it was hard to invade in people’s private information. People could carry out the private conversations on personally like home, or office. Plus, for storing information in file cabinets would be much harder to invade. In the modern world, privacy is an emerging right. As mentioned earlier the invention of the technologies makes it easier to invade in people’s private life. Some of the modern invasions involve cyber crimes, identity theft, telephone wiretaps, pornography, terrorism, etc. There are four kinds of basic rights. First is physical invasion of person’s home like peeking in someone’s house, searching wallet or purse, or taking financial data. Second is right of publicity, which involves using names of celebrities, or famous figures and using it without their permission. Third includes publication of private facts, for example sexual relations, personal letters, income tax data, etc. Finally Defamation,