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in U.S. law, an amalgam of principles embodied in the federal Constitution or recognized by courts or lawmaking bodies concerning what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis described in 1890 as "the right to be left alone." The right of is a legal concept in both ....

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.... the First, Fourth, and Fifth amendments. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures; the First and Fifth include protections in that they focus not on what the government may do but rather on the individual's freedom to be autonomous. The rights of were initially interpreted to include only protection against tangible intrusions resulting in measurable injury. After publication of an influential article by Justice Brandeis and Samuel Warren, "The Right to ," in the Harvard Law Review in 1890, however, the federal courts began to explore various constitutional principles that today are regarded as constituent elemen ....