Chapter Two: Is the Right to Privacy Threatened

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Chapter Two Is the Right to Privacy Threatened?

• Private Protectors
• Sandy Lautner, Jaimie Ellis, Adam Wilson and
• Valorie Etheridge

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A Loss of Privacy Benefits Society

• Exposes criminals to public scrutiny.
• Giving up some measure of privacy is exactly what
  the common good requires.
• Guidelines to when excepting privacy is not an
  absolute value
• tolerate new limitations on privacy when there is
  a compelling need
• minimize the entailed intrusion
• double check that there is no other way of
  serving the same purpose
• Ex Clinton/Lewinsky

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A Loss of Privacy Harms Society

• The right to privacy is essential to the
  preservation of freedom.
• The more privacy is invaded, the less reason one
  has to expect privacy, and therefore the more it
  may be invaded.
• Privacy is the great shield of freedom from
  interference.
• Ex Clinton/Lewinsky

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More Laws are Needed to Protect Privacy

• Now that privacy cannot easily be created by
  simple physical space, it is all the more
  important to insure the existence of private
  enclaves through new law.
• While some laws protect celebrities from unwanted
  attention, more laws are needed to keep their
  privacy from being invaded.
• Two reasons to care
• A democracy is badly served when newspapers and
  television focus so intensely on the personal
  joys and tragedies of famous people.
• Intrusions on the privacy of celebrities are, at
  least potentially, intrusions on the privacy of
  everyone.
• Ex Princess Diana

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More Laws are Not Needed to Protect Privacy

• Every state already provides civil remedies for
  those who believe their privacy has been
  violated.
• Legislation aimed at curbing the paparazzi cant
  withstand constitutional scrutiny because it is
  really about taste and control, not privacy.
• The First Amendment decrees that the government
  cant dictate what the public has a right to
  know.
• Ex Princess Diana

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Random Drug Tests on Student-Athletes Do Not
Violate the Right to Privacy

• Students who voluntarily participate in school
  athletics have reason to expect intrusions upon
  normal rights and privileges, including privacy.
• Violation of the students privacy is justified.
• People feel this violates the Fourth and
  Fourteenth Amendment.
• Ex Grand Blanc Wrestler

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Random Drug Tests on Student-Athletes Violate the
Right to Privacy

• The school Districts suspicionless policy of
  testing all student-athletes sweep too
  broadly.to be reasonable under the Fourth
  Amendment.
• The Fourth Amendment is more lenient with respect
  to school searches.
• Its unreasonable to believe that a schools
  choice of student-athletes is subject to
  sucpicionless testing.
• Ex Grand Blanc Wrestler

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Wiretaps Violate the Right to Privacy

• According to the U.S. Supreme Court, each and
  every electronic intercept constitutes a search
  and seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
• Request for wiretaps are almost never turned down
  by the courts.
• The Federal Government wants to require the
  nations phone companies to radically alter their
  critical electronic equipment to enable the
  bureau to eavesdrop on one out of every 100
  telephone conversations occurring at any given
  time in the nations largest cities and other,
  undefined prime target areas.
• Ex The Clinton Administration Counter Terrorism
  Legislation

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Wiretaps are Necessary to Fight Crime

• Civilized life is a compromise, and wiretaps have
  proved their value beyond doubt over the last
  decade, wiretaps have played a role in convicting
  tens of thousand of felons.
• The clipper will make computer based
  communication routinely safe and private in a way
  that gives us a fighting chance of keeping our
  ability to spy on criminals.
• Common sense suggests that this is no time to
  abandon a useful weapon on the fight against
  crime.
• Ex The Clinton Administration Counter Terrorism
  Legislation

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Works Cited

• Etzioni, Amitai. A Loss of Privacy Benefits
  Society Civil Liberties.