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A New Approach to the Right to Privacy

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Rachel Oda (PO ’20)  Guest Contributor   The right to privacy, properly understood, is not a shaky cluster of rights, but rather a single, fundamental right that forms the basis of our autonomy. It is a right to one’s person and to control one’s person. I argue it serves as the cornerstone of our Constitution because it provides the basis for many other individual rights, such as the right to...

The Price of Privacy

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Isabel Simon (PO ’18) In October 2016, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under the Obama Administration voted to require that broadband providers (Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, etc.) get permission from users before collecting and selling their private information. The requirements were set to take effect later this year. On March 28th, Congress voted 215-to-205 along party lines...

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