[lug] Privacy

[Rob Riggs]

Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Article 12. 
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html. Amazing that so many Americans 
are unfamiliar with its tenets.

As a member of the UN, the US is responsible for upholding these rights.

http://www.aclu.org/students/slprivacy.html -- validates the comments 
regarding the 4th amendment and the right to privacy.

Also note that the U.S. consititution is only there to control the 
interaction between the government and the people. It does not restrict 
actions between individuals. There is no such limit on the UDHR. These 
are "universal" rights.

-Rob

Peter Hutnick wrote:

>On Sunday 10 February 2002 09:23 pm, D. Stimits wrote:
>
>The Constitition [sic] says one of our most fundamental rights is the right 
>to be
>left alone, I do not believe the issue is as trivial or petty as it sounds.
>
>
>Could you provide a reference for that?  The closest thing I can think of is 
>fourth amendment right "of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, 
>papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" which 
>protects us from our own government, but certainly not foreign businesses.
>
>(As a side note, there seems to be an apocryphal popular belief in a "right 
>to privacy" provision in the Constitution, which is used to buttress 
>"abortion rights."  If anyone has a reference, let me know.)
>