Comments on: Facebook and Your “Privacy”

By: Thomas Lawrence Long

Thomas Lawrence Long — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:25:33 +0000

Thanks, Ken. As early as the 1920s, the US Supreme Court discerned a right to privacy within the constitutional concept of liberty. It has been applied more recently in key decisions regarding choices that one makes about one’s own body: Griswold v Connecticut (1965), which struck down birth control restrictions; Roe v Wade (1973), which struck down abortion prohibitions; and Lawrence v Texas (2003), which struck down sodomy prohibitions (among other cases).

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By: Ken Camp

Ken Camp — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:21:22 +0000

Nice post Thomas. Just thought I’d add that when I was teaching security and privacy courses in the tech sector, the same holds true for the US and most other countries. The US Constitution, Bill of Rights, even the Magna Carta don’t really grant a right to privacy. We’ve inferred it out of our wishes for such IMHO, but it simply isn’t there in my view.