The Attack On The Right To Privacy
December, 1967
The Right of Privacy, greatly cherished in the American tradition, is fast disappearing. We pay lip service to it and yet dishonor it in practice. As we pile high in apartments, as electronic surveillance increases, as the tentacles of government spread, Big Brother invades the precincts of our homes, audits our conversation and looks more and more over our shoulder.The right of privacy--the right that Justice Brandeis called "the right to be let alone"--is nowhere expressly mentioned...
