How the right of privacy was viewed in the 1890s and 2010s.
Essay
How the right of privacy was viewed in the 1890s and 2010s.
Comparison between two articles by Warren & Brandeis and Julie Cohen
The two articles have questioned - What is privacy ? The simplest answer would be that the privacy is
a human right and like in the first article by Warren & Brandeis, they quote Judge Cooly who sayd that,
the privacy is the right to be let alone. This means, that a person is free to go and do what ever the
person wants, no one has a right to harm him/her physically or mentally and vice versa. What ever the
person decides to do, nobody else has the right to know about it without persons premission.
Julie Cohen starts her essay with a point that privacy has the image problem. In the world where there