So do judges. Privacy cases focus on personal, emotional beliefs in conflict with each other. Appellate courts take widely different views of similar cases, depending on the judges personal experience and attitudes about the news media. Jurors are swayed more by an attorney s appeal to their outrage than by the law and legal precedent. Today s technology gives the media powerful new tools for intrusion into private lives.
Cameras are smaller and easier to hide.
Conversations are easily recorded surreptitiously. Computers and the Internet provide the ability to rummage through the closets of your life in ways that have never before been possible. An Evolving Legal Concept Personal privacy is a relatively new legal concept in this country. It is still evolving. The Bill of Rights protects citizens against unreasonable search and seizure.