Table of Contents
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Introduction 1
A Information Privacy, Technology, and The Law 1
Sidis v. F-R Publishing Corp. 3
B Information Privacy Law: Origins and Types 10
1 Common Law 10
(a) The Warren and Brandeis Article 10
Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, The Right to Privacy 13
(b) The Recognition of Warren and Brandeis's Privacy Torts 25
William Prosser, Privacy 26
Lake v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 28
(c) Privacy Protection in Tort Law 31
(d) Privacy Protection in Evidence Law 31
(e) Privacy Protection via Property Rights 32
(f) Privacy Protection in Contract Law 32
(g) Privacy Protection in Criminal Law 32
2 Constitutional Law 33
3 Statutory Law 35
4 International Law 38
C Perspectives on Privacy 39
1 The Philosophical Discourse About Privacy 39
(a) The Concept of Privacy and the Right to Privacy 39
(b) The Public and Private Spheres 39
2 The Definition and the Value of Privacy 40
Alan Westin, Privacy and Freedom 41
Julie E. Cohen, Examined Lives: Informational Privacy and the Subject as Object 46
Daniel J. Solove, Conceptualizing Privacy 49
Anita L. Allen, Coercing Privacy 52
Paul M. Schwartz, Privacy and Democracy in Cyberspace 54
Spiros Simitis, Reviewing Privacy in an Information Society 56
3 Critics of Privacy 59
Amitai Etzioni, The Limits of Privacy 59
Richard A. Posner, The Right of Privacy 61
Fred H. Cate, Principles of Internet Privacy 66
4 The Feminist Perspective on Privacy 69
State v. Rhodes 69
Reva B. Siegel, "The Rule of Love": Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy 72
Catharine A. MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State 74
Anita L. Allen, Uneasy Access:Privacy for Women in a Free Society 75
2 Privacy and The Media 77
A Information Gathering 78
1 Intrusion upon Seclusion 78
Restatement (Second) of Torts [section] 652B: Intrusion upon Seclusion 78
Nader v. General Motors Corp. 79
Dietemann v. Time, Inc. 84
Desnick v. American Broadcasting Co., Inc. 86
Shulman v. Group W Productions, Inc. 92
2 Paparazzi 96
Galella v. Onassis 96
California Anti-Paparazzi Act 98
3 Video Voyeurism 102
Video Voyeurism Prevention Act 103
B Disclosure of Truthful Information 105
1 Public Disclosure of Private Facts 105
(a) Introduction 105
Restatement (Second) of Torts [section] 652D: Publicity Given to Private Life 105
(b) Private Matters 107
Gill v. Hearst Publishing Co. 107
Daily Times Democrat v. Graham 111
(c) Publicity 116
Miller v. Motorola, Inc. 116
(d) The Newsworthiness Test 119
Sipple v. Chronicle Publishing Co. 119
Shulman v. Group W Productions, Inc. 131
Bonome v. Kaysen 134
2 First Amendment Limitations 141
Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn 143
The Florida Star v. B.J.F. 149
Bartnicki v. Vopper 161
C Dissemination of False or Misleading Information 173
1 Defamation 173
(a) Introduction 173
(b) Defamation and the Internet 175
Zeran v. America Online, Inc. 177
Blumenthal v. Drudge 180
(c) First Amendment Limitations 186
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan 186
Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. 189
2 False Light 196
(a) Introduction 196
Restatement (Second) of Torts [section] 652E: Publicity Placing Person in False Light 196
(b) First Amendment Limitations 199
Time, Inc. v. Hill 199
3 Infliction of Emotional Distress 202
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell 202
D Appropriation of Name or Likeness 205
1 Introduction 205
Restatement (Second) of Torts [section] 652C: Appropriation of Name or Likeness 205
2 Name or Likeness 208
Carson v. Here's Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc. 208
3 For One's Own Use or Benefit 214
Raymen v. United Senior Association, Inc. 214
4 Connection to Matters of Public Interest 218
Finger v. Omni Publications International, Ltd. 219
5 First Amendment Limitations 224
Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. 224
Estate of Presley v. Russen 226
Index 233
