Samuel D. Brandeis: The Right To Privacy

182 Words1 Pages
An individual’s privacy has been a right since the nineteenth century, when Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis, a Supreme Court Justice published their article “The Right to Privacy” in 1890, which proposed the general right to privacy, under common law. Before their article, in the United States there was no legal right to privacy, however after the article was published and the legal right to privacy was established, many courts applied it to several cases that dealt with privacy matters. In the Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 48 S. Ct. 564, 72 L. Ed. 944 (1928) case, Louis D. Brandeis created the legal right “to be let alone”, which became the most cherished right to individuals in society. Moreover, “the constitutional right