Right to PrivacySamuel D. Warren, Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Right to Privacy
by Samuel D. Warren, Louis Dembitz Brandeis · first published 2010
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…left/right wing political opinion, assume your government will become oppressive in 15 years and mark up all your kids for "special attention" based on your shopping habits today etc etc... See also: "The Right to Privacy by Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren" http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37368/37368-h/37368-h.htm
on “Ubuntu 13.04: Getting Excited About Ubuntu Again” ↗…neither history nor legal precedent supports that interpretation unequivocally (even with regard to the government specifically; you can read some really interesting Constitutional history about the "right to privacy" and how it arose as a concept in the late 1800s; Brandeis's "The Right to Privacy" is a fascinating historical document"). The only true remedy to this problem is laws enacted by Congress. We need to…
on “LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time” ↗While not directly related to Anonymity, I also strongly recommend Warren and Brandeis: "The Right to Privacy" as reading on some arguments against the "... if you have nothing to hide"-arguments: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
on “Selected Papers in Anonymity” ↗There is a tradition of data and metadata privacy based on Brandeis's "The Right to Privacy" from 1890. You are correct that this tradition is partly rooted in 4th amendment jurisprudence, but it has deeper foundations in English common law. Amy Gajda's Seek and Hide is an accessible introduction…
on “The future of privacy rights in a post-Roe world” ↗One of the best commentaries I've read on this topic, is still: "THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY." by Warren and Brandeis -- originally published in 1891(!): http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37368/37368-h/37368-h.htm Very well written, and illuminating to this day.
on “Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'” ↗"The Right to Privacy" by Warren and Brandeis. http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?” ↗In the year 1890 Samuel D. Warren, with future Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, published "The Right to Privacy" in Harvard Law Review[1]. Among other things, they wrote, "Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices…
on “Is there a solution against revenge porn?” ↗I can't believe they didn't cite the 1890 Harvard Law Review article, by Louis Brandeis and Samuel D. Warren, "The Right to Privacy" where the future Supreme Court Justice wrote, ""Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten…
on “Unintended Consequences of Photography” ↗Most cited legal paper regarding the right to privacy: The Right to Privacy, Samuel D. Warren & Louis D. Brandeis, 4 Harv. L. Rev. 193 (1890) http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
on “'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy [pdf]” ↗…including all rights and privileges, and hence embracing the right to an inviolate personality, affords alone that broad basis upon which the protection which the individual demands can be rested." -- "Right to Privacy" Warren & Brandeis December 15, 1890 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva... [ed: formatting]
on “LAPD adds drones to arsenal, says they'll be used sparingly ” ↗…including all rights and privileges, and hence embracing the right to an inviolate personality, affords alone that broad basis upon which the protection which the individual demands can be rested." -- "The Right to Privacy", Warren and Brandeis, 1890 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva... (I know I keep posting a link to Warren and Brandeis in all these discussions, but I find it a very interesting…
on “Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders uses a pager instead of a smart phone” ↗Traditionally, the (legal) argument begins with Warren and Brandeis, "The Right To Privacy", December 15, 1890: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva... That's been considered the foundation of privacy laws in the US. Europe generally has stricter laws -- for instance…
on “I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10” ↗…and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ There is Warren and Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy", 1890, which specifically addresses the publication of private aspects of citizens' (and residents') lives: * Recent inventions and business methods call attention to the next step which must be taken…
on “VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem” ↗…by technology, but rather, privacy is an emergent response to invasions of personal expectations and norms on information sharing caused by information technology advances. Warren and Brandeis's "The Right to Privacy" was a direct response to the invasions made possible by the first generation of analogue recording and replication, transmission, and reproduction technology: photophraphy, telegraphy, and rotary web…
on “The End of Privacy: academic research on AI targeting ad demographics [video]” ↗Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren published the first notable article about privacy in 1890, "The Right to Privacy".[0] It's often cited for the "the right to be let alone". What's not well known is that its focus was newspaper reporting, which it basically characterized as "gossip". 0) https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priv...
on “Quibi’s CEO Meg Whitman Compared Reporters to Sexual Predators” ↗