Informational Privacy Torts in California
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12 min readNov 12, 2020
The origin of common law privacy torts can be traced back to “The Right of Privacy” (4 Harvard L.R. 193 (Dec. 15, 1890)), an influential law review article written by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, and published in the 1890 Harvard Law Review. This essay is widely regarded as the first publication in the United States to advocate a right to privacy (defined primarily as a “right to be let alone”) and credited for…
