OPINION: California’s New Privacy Law Is No Model For The Nation
4:02 PM 11/29/2018 | Opinion
Bartlett Cleland | Contributor
The fundamental problem of defining privacy is the same as defining obscenity. What is an outrage to one person is no big deal to another.
Justice Potter Stewart said it best in his concurrence in the landmark case on obscenity (Jacobellis v. Ohio): “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [of “hard-core pornographyâ€], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.â€
The same goes for most people when it comes to privacy. Most people feel they “know it when they see it†when something should be considered private, but that too is in the eye of the beholder. What one person sees as an invasion of privacy, another sees an example of great customer service. Sensitivity of protection of health records for some may be of higher concern than about their shopping habits being made public. Others are more concerned with what the government knows about them than what an online grocery store knows about their cereal choices.
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