Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Fri Nov 22 11:13:51 CST 2013
Hi Peter, Well, I had to look up UDHR, because I didn't recognize the acronym. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, by the United Nations General Assembly, 1948 is what I found. Thank you for guiding me to this document. Best to you, TNF Tina Norris Fields tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com 231-322-2787 On 11/22/2013 10:26 AM, Peter Brawley wrote: > On 2013-11-22 8:59 AM, Tina Norris Fields wrote: >> It's interesting to me that the presumption of a right to privacy in >> the U.S. stems from the assurances of the Fourth Amendment, to be >> secure from unreasonable search and seizure, combined with the >> assurances of the Ninth Amendment that rights that haven't been >> enumerated still exist and are retained by the States and the People >> themselves. > > Article 12 of the UDHR says "No one shall be subjected to interference > with his privacy, family, home or correspondence..." > > PB > > ----- > >> >> Although the right to privacy wasn't supported by documentation until >> the Supreme Court 1967 decision, the families I knew while growing up >> all presumed they had the right to keep certain information to >> themselves. The concept that some things were nobody else's business >> is not a new concept. However, I would point out that the American >> culture wasn't all that clear about its attitudes, as demonstrated by >> laws on the books that regulated what persons could and couldn't do >> within their own bedrooms. So, while I believe we have long had a >> sense of ownership and choice concerning what we reveal to others, we >> haven't been even-handed in our attitude when it came to prying into >> the affairs of others. >> >> To paraphrase an old saying, it's not so much that we opposed >> ox-goring as that we opposed having our own ox gored. >> >> Best to you, >> TNF >> >> Tina Norris Fields >> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com >> 231-322-2787