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114. Rybczynski, Home, 18; see also Flaherty, Privacy in Colonial New England, 34
(describing crowded one-room homes of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century En­
gland). Even in the sixteenth century, most homes lacked separate rooms. Ry­
bczynski, Home, 18. When rooms were assigned purposes, the house became di­
vided into distinct areas for women and men. See Hall, “Sweet Delights,” 91.
Houses in America followed the same pattern of development. Flaherty, Privacy in
Colonial New England, 33—44.
115. Mumford, City in History 285.
116. Stone, “Public and the Private,” 237.
117. Flaherty, Privacy in Colonial New England, 40; see also Rybczynski, Home,
41 (“There were no corridors in these houses—each room was connected directly
to its neighbor—and architects prided themselves on aligning all the doors en­
filade, so that there was an unobstructed view from one end of the house to the
other”).
118. Only the aristocracy could afford to purchase the space necessary to main­
tain privacy. “The wealthy naturally increased the amount of private space avail­
able to them, but for the rest of the population, the vast majority, the idea of pri­
vacy did not extend beyond the bedroom, and perhaps not beyond the bed
curtains.” Orest Ranum, “Forms of Privatization: The Refuges of Intimacy,” in A
Notes to Pages 60-63
215
Histoiy o f Private Life, vol. 3, 225. The rise of the bourgeoisie made solitude more
widely available. See Joseph Bensman & Robert Lilienfeld, Between Public and Pri­
vate: The Lost Boundaries o f the S elf31 (1979).
119. Stone, “Public and the Private,” 227, 232-34.
120. Mumford, City in History, 286, 243; Georges Duby, “Preface” to A History
of Private Life, vol. 2, xii.
121. Gini Graham Scott, M ind Your Own Business: The Battle for Personal Privacy
32 (1995); Flaherty, Privacy in Colonial New England, 40.
122. Roger Chartier, “Figures of Modernity: The Practical Impact of Writing,”
in A History o f Private Life, vol. 3, 134.
123. See Philippe Braunstein, “Toward Intimacy: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries,” in A Histoty of Private Life, vol. 2, 538.
124. See Ranum, “Forms of Privatization,” 226-27.
125. Edward Shils, “Privacy: Its Constitution and Vicissitudes,” 31 Law and Con­
tentporary Problems 281, 289 (1966).
126. Aries, “Introduction,” 1-2.
127. Hareven, “Home and the Family,” 259.
128. Mexican Constitution, art. 16 (amended 1996), quoted in Jorge A. Vagas,
“Privacy Rights Under Mexican Law: Emergence and Legal Configuration of a
Panoply of New Rights,” 27 Houston Journal of International Law 73, 89 (2004);
Constitution of the Republic of Chile art. 19 (1980); Germany, Basic Law
(Grundgesetz) art. 10 (1949); Constitution of Belgium art. 29 (1831, latest revision
1993); Czech Republic, Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms art. 7
(1993); quoted in Privacy and Human Rights, 352,480, 270, 399.
129. Robert Ellis Smith, Ben Franklin's Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity from Ply­
mouth Rock to the Internet 23-25 (2000).
130. Flaherty, Privacy in Colonial New England, 116-17.
131. Id. at 119, 122-23; Smith, Ben Franklin's Web Site, 50-51.
132. David J. Seipp, The Right to Privacy in American History 11 (1978).
133. Smith, Ben Franklin's Web Site, 50.
134. Cynthia A. Kiemer, Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's
America 64 (2004).
135. Flaherty, Privacy in Colonial New England, 120, 121.
136. Smith, Ben Franklin's Web Site, 50-51.
137. Ex parte Jackson, 96 U.S. 727, 733 (1877).
138. See Seipp, Note, “Right to Privacy,” 1899.
139. Denis v. Leclerc, 1 Martin (O.S.) 297, 313 (La. 1811). See also Seipp, Note,
“Right to Privacy,” 1899 (collecting examples).
140. Seipp, Note, “Right to Privacy,” 1900.
141. Joseph Story, 2 Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in En­
gland and America 261,262,264 (3d ed., 1843). The desire for privacy of letters was
not unique to America. In 1790 in France, “the National Assembly in Paris de­
clared the secret of letters to be inviolable, and the French penal code incorporated
this sweeping declaration.” Many other countries enacted laws to safeguard the
privacy of letters. Peter Gay, Schnitzler's Century: The Making o f Middle-Class Cul­
ture 1813-1914,258 (2002).
142. Seipp, Right to Privacy, 32 (quoting Western Union Rule 128).
143. Seipp, Note, “Right to Privacy,” 1901.
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Notes to Pages 63-70
144. Seipp, Right to Privacy, 31-35.
145. Id. at 31-42.
146. Smith, Ben Franklin's Web Site, 157.
147. Claude S. Fischer, America Calling: A Social History o f the Telephone to 1940,
48, 71,241 (1992). Some party lines had as many as ten to thirty parties. “As late as
1930, 63 percent of Bell’s residential telephones were still on party lines. That pro­
portion had decreased modesdy over the previous four years, but was actually
higher than it had been before World War I.” Id. at 83.
148. Samuel Dash, Richard F. Schwartz, & Robert E. Knowlton, The Eavesdrop­
pers 8, 25-26 (1959).
149. Orin S. Kerr, “The Fourth Amendment and New Technologies: Constitu­
tional Myths and the Case for Caution,” 102 Michigan Law Review 801, 841 (2004).
150. Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 466 (1928).
151. Samuel Dash, The Intruders 74 (2004).
152. Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438,470 (1928) (Holmes, J., dissenting).
153. Dash, Intruders\ 82; see Federal Communications Act of 1934, Pub. L. No.
90-351, §2520, 48 Stat. 1103 (codified as amended at 47 U.S.C. §605).
154.389 U.S. 347,353 (1967).
155. Pub. L. No. 90-351, ch. 119,82 Stat. 212 (codified as amended at 18 U.S.C.
§§2510-2522).
156. See generally Privacy and Human Rights.
157. B. Moore, Privacy, 59.
158. Id. at 67, 70.
159. Alan Wesdn, Privacy and Freedom 12 (1967).
160. Adam D. Moore, “Privacy: Its Meaning and Value,” 40 American Philosoph­
ical Quarterly 215, 221-22, 223 (2003).
161. Restatement (Second) of Torts §652D cmt. h.
162. Misery v. Interim National Medical & Dental Council, 1998 (4) SA 1127,
available at http://www.worldlii.org/cgi-worldlii/disp.pl/za/cases/ZACC/1998/10