ABSTRACT
Privacy is a broad legal term that covers a variety of issues, some of them governed by federal law and others by state law. False light is the presentation of information about a person in a news story or other medium in a manner that may not be inaccurate per se but which is exaggerated or misleading. Many private facts cases involve the "public domain" defense as applied to the naming of crime victims, including the 1975 case of Cox Broadcasting v. Cohn, which resulted in the Supreme Court invalidating state laws that prohibited identifying victims of rape and other sex crimes. Intrusion in the form of trespassing includes misrepresentation, meaning that journalists cannot misrepresent themselves or conduct "hidden camera" interviews in a person's home. Intrusion does not require publication of information or photographs; the act of trespassing itself is enough to be "intrusion".
