ABSTRACT
Privacy is the condition of not having undocumented personal knowledge about one possessed by others. A person's privacy is diminished exactly to the degree that others possess this kind of knowledge about him. Privacy is essential for intimate relationships because, in Fried's view, their defining mark is the sharing of information about oneself that is not shared with others, and without privacy this would be impossible. The moral right to privacy does not embody the rule "privacy may never be invaded". It is important to emphasize that there are such things as justifiable invasions of privacy. Invasion of privacy must consist of truthful disclosures about a person. Privacy might yet come to occupy a significant place in American jurisprudence. The spreading of falsehoods or purely subjective opinions about a person does not constitute an invasion of his privacy. It is condemnable in the language of libel or slander.
