Why Is Celebrities Not An Invasion Of Privacy

Everyone is entitled to respect for their private, family, home, and digital life. Human rights are the freedoms every individual is entitled to, simply for being human, despite gender, financial status and social standing. Celebrities are protected under human rights, yet their basic right of privacy is continually violated. Many may argue that celebrities are not granted the same degree of privacy as the average individual as celebrity status opens their private lives to the public. However the personal lives of famous people should be off limits, as they are entitled to the same rights of privacy and should not be harassed by people who are only trying to make money off of them.

For several celebrities, their private lives are publicized

Celebrities may even deliberately leak personal details to generate publicity. Restricting the publication of photos will be quite difficult under the First Amendment, as the publication of photos is protected speech in many cases. Despite this, majority of the time, celebrities are not the ones exploiting themselves. Also if a celebrity choose to publicize information, or consent to their information being released, then that is not an invasion of privacy. However, it is an invasion when private information belonging to them is released and they did not consent, despite if they released information on the topic themselves. Not only are they living their day-to-day lives in the public eye, many celebrities must contend with the fabrications and distortions of gossip columnists, the infatuation of stalkers, and the unrelenting paparazzi, who follow them into restaurants, to their children’s schools, on vacations, and even in their own residential neighborhoods. Not only are famous people the victims of breached privacy, but also their families. Several times children are subjected to these harassments as well. Jennifer Garner and Halle Berry was able to get a bill passed that, “limit the rights of the “press” to “alarm, annoy, torment or terrorize” children in the pursuit of news gathering” (Shepard). The judicial system has deemed the press’ tactics in