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Media Invasions of Privacy

- August 4, 2011

bq. Instantaneous photographs and newspaper enterprise have invaded the sacred precincts of private and domestic life; and numerous mechanical devices threaten to make good the prediction that ” what is whispered in the closet shall be proclaimed from the house-tops.”

From an 1890 Harvard Law Review article by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis.  The cite come from this piece by Gordon Crovitz.  The article, gated, is here.