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This right to privacy, also adds to other rights defined in the American and French declarations in the late eighteenth century. It is first in Brandeis and Warren’s 1890 article on ‘the right to privacy’ that we have a clear legal notion of a ‘right to be left alone’. One may notice the absence of any legal or political connotation, except perhaps that it denotes something ‘secret’ and ‘retired’ from others. ‘Private’ stems from the Latin privatus, meaning 1) not open, secret, 2) alone, not accompanied, 3) being upon the same terms upon the community, particular, opposed to public, 4) particular, not relating to public, 5) in private, secretly, not in public.
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If we look at the 1768 edition of Samuel Johnson’s A dictionary of the English language, privacy is defined as stemming from ‘private’ and designating 1) the state of being secret, secrecy, or 2) retirement, retreat, or 3) privity, grand familiarity, joint knowledge, or 4) taciturnity. Privacy as privauté is not of our concern here. French dictionaries at the time also defined ‘privauté’ as ‘familiarité’. If we look at Nathan Bailey’s 1730 Dictionarium Britannicum, ‘privacy’ is identified as stemming from the French privauté, meaning ‘familiarity’, but also retirement or secrecy. Again a legal and political understanding. Privacy is also the avoidance of publicity, protection from public knowledge. One may note a particular legal and political undertone is this definition with the word right and choice, the words freedom and the liberal definition of liberty as freedom from interference or intrusion.
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the state or condition of not being alone, undisturbed, or free from public attention, as a matter of choice or right seclusion freedom from interference or intrusion’. The notion of a ‘right to privacy’ did not exist, neither legally nor in the minds.Īccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, privacy is defined as ‘1. Privacy was a word people used in the eighteenth century, albeit not in the exact same way as we do today. What does privacy have to do with moral philosophy? A lot, depending on how we conceptualize privacy.