What Is Privacy?
The term privacy is a subjective term. There is not a single, universal definition for privacy. Let’s consider some modern history of the word.
In the 1890 issue of the Harvard Law Review an essay entitled “The Right to Privacy” by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis defined privacy as “the right to be let alone.” What inspired Warren and Brandeis to write such an essay? They were concerned about a new-fangled technology/gadget—the Brownie camera—a new technology at that time period that was starting to be widely used by the general public to capture images not only in private residences, but also in public venues. It reportedly greatly disturbed in particular Samuel Warren that journalists were now taking ...
