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Library and privacy

We serve communities, not just customers, and our goal is the common good, not profits. http://t.co/wflQOA95AJ #bibliothek — Jürgen Ludwig (@J__Ludwig) August 5, 2014 Guter Artikel über den Schutz der Privatsphäre und was Bibliotheken hier dienstleistungsmäßig leisten könnten.

Guter Artikel über den Schutz der Privatsphäre und was Bibliotheken hier dienstleistungsmäßig leisten könnten.

the right to be let alone

“The protection guaranteed by the Amendments is much broader in scope. The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man’s spiritual nature, of his feelings, and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life … „the right to be let alone“ weiterlesen

“The protection guaranteed by the Amendments is much broader in scope. The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. They recognized the significance of man’s spiritual nature, of his feelings, and of his intellect. They knew that only a part of the pain, pleasure and satisfactions of life are to be found in material things. They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the Government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment. And the use, as evidence [p479] in a criminal proceeding, of facts ascertained by such intrusion must be deemed a violation of the Fifth.”—Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928)

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