The Right to Privacy

by KENNEDY, CAROLINEALDERMAN, ELLEN

• ISBN13: 9780679744344
• ISBN10: 0679744347
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1997-02-04
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

Can the police strip-search a woman who has been arrested for a minor traffic violation? Can a magazine publish an embarrassing photo of you without your permission? Does your boss have the right to read your email? Can a company monitor its employees' off-the-job lifestyles--and fire those who drink, smoke, or live with a partner of the same sex? Although the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution, most of us believe that we have an inalienable right to be left alone. Yet in arenas that range from the battlefield of abortion to the information highway, privacy is under siege. In this eye-opening and sometimes hair-raising book, Alderman and Kennedy survey hundreds of recent cases in which ordinary citizens have come up against the intrusions of government, businesses, the news media, and their own neighbors. At once shocking and instructive, up-to-date and rich in historical perspective,The Right to Privateis an invaluable guide to one of the most charged issues of our time. "Anyone hoping to understand the sometimes precarious state of privacy in modern America should start by reading this book."--Washington Post Book World "Skillfully weaves together unfamiliar, dramatic case histories...a book with impressive breadth."--Time

Author Biography

Caroline Kennedy is an attorney and the coauthor (with Ellen Alderman) of The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense.

Ellen Alderman is the coauthor, with Caroline Kennedy, of The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Authors' Note
Introduction
Joan W. v. City of Chicago: The Strip Search Cases	p. 3
People of New York v. Hollman: The Drug Interdiction Cases	p. 31
New Jersey v. T.L.O.: The School Search Cases	p. 36
From Griswold to Casey: The Contraception and Abortion Cases	p. 55
Davis v. Davis: The Frozen Embryos Case	p. 71
In re A.C.: The Forced Cesarean Case	p. 95
Quill v. Koppell: The Right-to-Die Cases	p. 127
Doe v. City of New York: The Other Constitutional Right to Privacy	p. 140
The Right to Be Let Alone	p. 154
Hall v. Post: The Case of an Adoption Revealed (Private Facts)	p. 158
Miller v. NBC: The Case of the Televised Death (Intrusion)	p. 176
Braun v. Flynt: The Case of the Swimming Pig (False Light)	p. 191
Arrington v. The New York Times Company: The Case of the Cover Photo (Appropriation)	p. 209
Cooper v. Anderson: The Sex Tape Case	p. 227
McCall v. The Sherwood Inn: The Peephole Cases	p. 249
Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corp.: Psychological Testing	p. 277
Shahar v. Bowers: Lifestyle Monitoring	p. 294
Shoars v. Epson America, Inc.: High-Tech Monitoring	p. 310
Afterword to the Vintage Edition	p. 335
An Update	p. 339
Notes	p. 343
Bibliography	p. 399
Index	p. 401
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