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Privacy History
Snapshot
• Colonial America: “solitude was readily
available…” – David H. Flaherty, Privacy in
Colonial America (1972)
• Flaherty observes, since people lived
in towns, physical surveillance was
difficult to escape
• Home was ‘castle’ of one individual’s privacy
• Revolutionary War: Introduced central privacy
theme of freedom of government intrusion.
• 1890 introduced Right to Privacy, - Warren &
Brandeis
• Response to media, gossiping, cameras
• Harry Kalven Jr, “most influential law
review article of all.”
• Increase in privacy laws/ revisions in 20th
century
• Rise in litigation hasn’t helped, or has it? If so,
who?
3/21 9/19
1790
U.S Census
Formed
1600s
Colonial
America
1775 - 1783
Revolutionary Period
Dec 1791
U.S Bill of Rights
Ratified (Art 3-12)
1890
Outcry over Census
asking on diseases,
finances, disabilities
3/21/2018 - 4/27/2018
Copies of Census posted in public
places to validate errors
1890
Warren & Brandeis
Right to Privacy
Birthed
1960
William Prosser
recognizes 4 distinct
torts
1935
Social Security System,
FBI created
1946
Birth of the
Computer
Privacy Act
of 1974
1970
FCRA
Born
Increase in
pirvacy laws
from 1980
onward