Privacy and Security of Data
Judith B. Prowda · FLASH - Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship & History (Fordham University) · 1995
213.This section of the Report addresses the right to privacy, or the right of individuals to control information held by others, not privacy in the context of Supreme Court decisions pertaining to abortion or other personal behavior of individuals.The right to privacy, as used in this section, refers to "the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others."Alan F. Westin, Privacy and Freedom 7 (1967).214.Stanley v. Georgia, 394 U.S. 557, 564-66 (1969); NAACP v. Alabama ex rel.Patterson, 357 U.S. 449, 460-63 (1958).215.Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 350-53 (1967) (establishing protection of persons under the Fourth Amendment); Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 478 (Brandeis, J., dissenting) (1928); Boyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616, 627-30 (1886).216.Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 656-57 (1961) (noting that an unconstitutional seizure is tantamount to coerced self-incrimination).[Vol.64