Privacy? What privacy?
‘The right to be left alone` is not an ancient right, unlike property law or contract law. It is also not nearly a settled law. Problem is, everyone from the Orwellian paranoiac to the insouciant naïf is probably wrong in their view about the use and abuse of personal information.
01 May 2006
What exactly constitutes, as the US Bill of Rights puts it, “unreasonable searches and seizures”? How absolute is clause 14 of our own constitution, which guarantees the right not to have one`s person, property or home searched, one`s possessions seized, or the privacy of one`s communications infringed?
Our draft privacy Bill reckons it isn`t absolute at all. And the practical reality of life in the modern age suggests privacy is a pipedream.
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