Senior Privacy Program Manager

In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis published an article called “The Right to Privacy” in the Harvard Law Review. They weren't responding to a court ruling or a piece of legislation. They were responding to the gossip pages.

Boston's newspapers had started printing details of private social events (weddings, dinner parties, the comings and goings of wealthy families) because instantaneous photography and new printing technology had made it cheap and easy to do so. The law had not...