Privacy Chats with Rachel and John

Ep. 1 - The History of Privacy


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For our very first episode, we wanted to kick off our channel with a video discussing the topic of the History of Privacy. We give mention to the following topics while sharing what we've found through our own independent research with one another:

  • Introduction of Warren and Brandeis article: "The Right to Privacy"
  • The 4 categories of Privacy, including Bodily Privacy, Territorial Privacy, Communication Privacy, and Information Privacy
  • Robertson v. United States (1952)
  • Post-Brandeis era mentioned of Privacy in US law, including the 1905 Georgia Supreme Court Ruling's recognition of Privacy
  • Privacy trends and laws and their growing relevance to the technologies available at the time, such as the invention of the
  • printing press and photographs
  • Katz v. United States (1967) & the "Reasonable Expectation of Privacy" doctrine
  • Olmstead v. United States (1928)
  • Bodily Privacy & the relevance of it in the Griswold v. Connecticut case (1965) and Roe v. Wade (1973)
  • Fair Information Practices (1972)
  • OECD's Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (1980) as a foundational set of privacy principles
  • Sector specific laws in the latter part of the 20th century, including FERPA (1972), FISA (1978), and HIPAA (1996)
  • ...more
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