The libertarian theory of privacy limits itself to physical aggression against property. This approach tends to absorb the concept of privacy into property rights. This diminishes the visibility and importance of privacy, which has a long historical tradition and meaning. By contrast, common law and some constitutional law articulate a larger and highly relevant understanding of privacy. Some of this is based on a social understanding of the person and relation of individual freedom, expression and realization of a person to behavior of people around the person in society. This affords us grounds in addition to the libertarian emphasis on … Continue reading Beyond Libertarian Theory of Privacy