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  1. Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, “The Right to Privacy,” Harvard Law Review Vol. IV (1890): 193–220, p. 195.

  2. The Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act (HIPPA), Final Privacy Rule – Regulation Text, Federal Register: 12/28.00 (Volume 65, Number 250), Background and Purpose, 14 and the Final Rule on Privacy of Consumer Financial Information (Public Law 106-102, 15 U.S.C. § 6801, et. seq.).

  3. Jennifer K. Greene, “Before Snowden: Privacy in an Earlier Digital Age,” International Journal of Philosophy and Theology Vol. 2 (2014): 1–26.

  4. Bowers v. Hardwick 478 U.S. (1986).

  5. Warren and Brandeis, op. cit., p. 206.

  6. See in particular Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “The Right to Privacy,” Philosophy and Public Affairs Vol. 4 (1975): 295–314. See also William Parent who claims that privacy is reducible to liberty claims in “A New Definition of Privacy for the Law,” Law and Philosophy Vol. 2 (1983): 305–338.

  7. Parent, op. cit., p. 305; Laurence Tribe, qtd. in Judith Wagner DeCew, In Pursuit of Privacy: Law, Ethics, and the Rise of Technology (NY: Cornell University Press, 1997), p. 62.

  8. DeCew, op. cit., p. 61, quoting the Court in Whalen v. Roe.

  9. William L. Prosser, “Privacy,” California Law Review Vol. 48 (1960): 383–423, p. 389.

  10. 171 N.Y. 538 (1902).

  11. Victoria Prussen Spears, “The Case that Started it All: Roberson v. The Rochester Folding Box Company,” Privacy and Data Security Law Journal Nov. 2008: 1043–1050.

  12. Pavesich v. New England Life Insurance Co. 122 Ga. 190; 50 S.E. 68; 1905 Ga. I am indebted to this journal’s reviewer for pointing out this important case.

  13. Griswold v. Connecticut 381 U.S. 479 (1965).

  14. Loving v. Virginia 388 U.S. 1 (1967).

  15. Roe v. Wade 410 U.S. 113 (1973); Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 588 (2003); Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, Director, Ohio Department of Health, et al., No. 14-556. Argued April 28, 2015 – Decided June 26, 2015.

  16. See Parent, op. cit.; Joseph Kupfer, “Privacy, Autonomy, and Self-Concept,” American Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 24 (1987): 81–89; Jeffrey Reiman, “Privacy, Intimacy, and Personhood,” Philosophy and Public Affairs Vol. 6 (1976): 26–44; James Rachels, “Why Privacy is Important,” Philosophy & Public Affairs Vol. 4 (1975): 323–33; Charles Fried, An Anatomy of Values: Problems of Personal and Social Choice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970); Tom Gerety, “Redefining Privacy,” Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review No. 12 (1977): 233–96; and Edward J. Bloustein, “Privacy as an Aspect of Human Dignity: An Answer to Dean Prosser” in Ferdinand D. Schoeman, ed., Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy (London: Cambridge University Press, 1984). 153–202, p. 104.

  17. W.B. Gallie, “Essentially Contested Concepts,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Vol. 56 (1955): 167–198.

  18. Fried, op. cit., p. 142.

  19. Warren and Brandeis, op. cit., p. 196.

  20. Michael Rowe, Crossing Borders: Encounters Between Homeless People and Outreach Workers (LA: University of California Press, 1999).

  21. Warren and Brandeis, op. cit., p. 195.

  22. Warren and Brandeis, op. cit., p. 199, emphasis added.

  23. Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man (NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1974), p. 5.

  24. Rachels, op. cit., p. 328.

  25. DeCew, op. cit., p. 18.

  26. “Marie Antoinette’s Estate,” Chateau de Versailles, http://en.chateauversailles.fr/marie-antoinettes-estate.

  27. “Big Brother Awards,” Privacy International, https://www.privacyinternational.org/.

  28. Reiman, op. cit., p. 32.

  29. Miki McGee in Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life (NY: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007), p. 11.

  30. Sennett, op. cit., p. 4.

  31. Bloustein, op. cit., p. 157.

  32. See Adam Moore, “Defining Privacy,” op. cit., and Privacy Rights: Moral and Legal Foundations (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2010); Beate Rossler, The Value of Privacy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005); and Anita Allen, Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide? (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011). Judith Wagner DeCew’s article, “Privacy,” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002).

  33. Judge Cooley, qtd. in Warren and Brandeis, op. cit., p. 195.

  34. Benn, op. cit., 224.

  35. Warren and Brandeis, op. cit., p. 196.

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Greene, J.K. The Resuscitation of Normative Privacy. J Value Inquiry 51, 383–395 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-016-9584-3

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