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Abstract:
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Rights have been long understood, first and foremost, as protection of the private
from the public, the individual from the state. Typically, early explorations of the
right to privacy concerned the protection of diaries and protection of the home
from quartering soldiers. True, over the ages we also came to recognize positive
rights (such as socioeconomic rights) and the government’s duty to protect
citizens from violations of rights by other actors besides the state. However, when
violations of privacy are discussed, the first violator that typically comes to mind
is ‘‘Big Brother’’ that is, the state. This article focuses on the growing threat to
privacy from private actors, especially profit-making corporations. |