Right to Privacy The right to privacy has developed as a nearly universal human right. The best evidence of that trend is the adoption of comprehensive privacy and data protection standards and statutes, as well as the right...

Discussions about privacy are intertwined with the use of technology. The publication that began the debate about privacy in the Western world was occasioned by the introduction of the newspaper printing press and photography. Justices Warren and...

Privacy, Child's Right To Laws and guidelines concerning who should have access to a child's privacy. Privacy is viewed in most democratic societies as a necessary element in the development of healthy, active individuals. The Fourth...

Concern over personal privacy has risen as a result of two areas of development in computing and related technologies. First, databases used as surveillance tools for gathering, storing, and disseminating personal information have stirred fears that...

Privacy as a value is often regarded as an essentially modern development, emerging out of the liberalism of nineteenth-century writers like J.S.Mill (1971 [1874]). In the Classical world, the private was associated with withdrawal from the public...

As more diagnostic, screening, and monitoring tests based on genetic data become available, privacy issues are becoming increasingly important. There are concerns that the results of genetic tests showing a person to be pre-disposed to a particular...

Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differs between cultures and individuals, but shares basic...