ABSTRACT
The right of individuals to protect their privacy has long been cherished in Western culture. Samuel Warren and Louis D. Brandeis gave this concept legal formulation in their famous essay “The Right to Privacy” in the December 1890 Harvard Law Review. Thirty-eight years later, Brandeis still maintained his concern:
The makers of the U.S. Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. . . . They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone-the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man.1
