The privacy paradox

Article Abstract:

Restrictions to protect personal privacy increasingly hamper the press and may cause a loss to the public good greater than the privacy protection gained. Case law restrictions include the increase in suits against the media such as fraud and intentional infliction of emotional distress. New laws include those at the state level giving individuals the right to sue for activities such as following a newsworthy subject. Limits on access to data in government files are growing more common bassed on claims that releasing such information would invade personal privacy.

Confidential communications, Journalistic privilege

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Media gains access to 'Unabomber' psychiatric report

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The 9th Circuit federal appeals panel in San Francisco, CA, ruled in Aug 1998 that The San Francisco Examiner and CBS Broadcasting, Inc., had a right of access to a redacted psychological report about Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski. The panel ruled that the public's right to know outweighed Kaczynski's right to privacy. The public has a right to know about judicial proceedings and information used to determine the fate of criminal defendants. The report was edited to protect third parties.

Laws, regulations and rules, Kaczynski, Theodore

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Public interest in Hoover's files warrants review

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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in Summers v. Department of Justice that the privacy concerns of the individuals mentioned in the J. Edgar Hoover files collected for political uses might outweigh public interest in those files. The appeals court ordered this case sent back to the trial court level which had ruled summarily for the government after considering this case for a decade.

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