Perspective
Jul. 4, 2013
Rethinking our privacy jurisprudence
Privacy as a legal right was created in the obfuscated, ill-advised, divided U.S. Supreme Court opinion of Katz v. United States. This single case spawned 50 years of heated debate. By Jeremy M. Miller
When a law, a principle, is fundamentally incorrect at its core, it implodes. So, Ptolemaic spheres of the heavenly bodies circling the Earth became so intrinsic as to be not only majestic and a fantasy (though beautiful), it also became unmanageable - constantly plagued by new and inexplicable "exceptions." Thus, painfully, pitifully, at last Copernican astronomy became accepted as the law. The Earth orbits the Sun.
There ...
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