The Judicial Development and Enforcement of Privacy Rights
Beginning with its first hints at a constitutional right to privacy in the 1920s and continuing through its full and formal embrace of such a personal prerogative in the mid-1960s, the United States Supreme Court has identified from various sources in our founding document what one justice described as “the right to an inviolate personality” and “the right to be left alone.” That seminal doctrine has been invoked by our judiciary to ensure privacy protections in many, important areas of contemporary American life and livelihood for over a century—including but not limited to access to…
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