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1 - No Privacy in Public = No Privacy for the Precarious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2020

Scott Skinner-Thompson
Affiliation:
University of Colorado Law School
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Broadly speaking, both privacy doctrine and public discourse suggest that the right to privacy is significantly diminished once one enters the public realm or once one’s information is shared with others.1 In fact, certain doctrines provide that the right to privacy while in public is nearly nonexistent, that privacy is more or less “dead” once you walk out your front door or expose your activities to anyone else – even if you are fortunate enough to have your own property and still be on it.2 Pursuant to this conception of the right to privacy, privacy is synonymous with secrecy – and, as described by Daniel Solove, this “secrecy paradigm” greatly limits legal protection for privacy.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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