Re: Privacy, Property, Cryptography (long)

[Mike Godwin <mnemonic@eff.org>]

Dark writes:

> The only statues giving any kind of "Right to privacy" that have
> any weight at all are full of holes.  For the most part a right
> to privacy has been EXTRACTED from them, usually without much basis.
> 
> Even Brandeis has his reservations (International News Service v.
> Associated Press)  Again, the right to privacy is not constitutionally
> reserved, and is almost entirely a construction of common law.

As I recall, Dark, INS v. AP is copyright/First Amendment case, not a
privacy case. (International News Service was cribbing from AP stories.)
What does Brandeis say in this case that seems to be a reservation about
privacy rights?


--Mike