Privacy
Position Paper

Essential Question:
If the right to privacy is unremunerated, is it a valid constitutional right?

 

 

 

Required Concepts:

• Arizona Constitution Article II
• implied rights
• private and public domains
• First Amendment/free expression
• republican government
• federalism
• separation of powers and checks and balances
• judicial Review
• limited government
• rule of law

Three landmark privacy cases, use these cases and articles to support your thesis.

• Griswold v. Connecticut 381 US 479 (1965) (marital relations privacy)
• The concise version of Girswold
• MP3 of Oral Arguments in Griswold
• ROE v. WADE, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) (reproductive privacy)
• HARTIGAN v. ZBARAZ, 484 U.S. 171 (1987) (parental notification of abortions)

The articles

• Click here for Real ID and other current privacy articles
• Ariz. judges favor some privacy for nameless e-mails
• Supreme Court to Weigh Nevada Man's Right to Privacy - September 5, 2007 · NPR's Alex Chadwick reports on the case of Dudley Hiibel. Four years ago, Hiibel refused to show his identification to a deputy who was investigating a report of domestic abuse, and was arrested and charged with obstructing a police officer. Hiibel fought the charges all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears his case today.
• 'Judicial Activism' to Be Thankful For
• Privacy Tips From Privacy Journal
• Privacy article collection at teacherweb
• National ID card
• Google unveils satellite map feature
• High-tech ID-card proposals moving ahead
• 30 years after ruling, ambiguity, anxiety surround abortion debate
• Cellphone cameras are latest threat to privacy
• President's proposal would limit distribution of medical records
• More companies using high tech to track workers
• Threat to privacy
• Privacy International Web Site
• Social Security Number unlocks your private life (AZ Star)
• Once-protected digits are now `free game' (AZ Star. good Tucson connection)
• Court denies rehearing on abortion-consent law
• The Privacy Journal
• Opinion: Technology is increasing privacy, not threatening it
• America's `War on Drugs' claims its latest victim: Americans' freedom
• Hackers can turn network cameras, microphones on you
• Anonymity guaranteed on the Internet
• ISP admits scanning its own subscribers
• Government details children's online privacy
• Opinion: Privacy aside, why chip IDs are a bad idea
• 'Big Brother Awards' highlight privacy complaints
• EU to U.S.: Privacy rules not good enough
• 45% of big firms monitor workers
• Federal court says there is no constitutional right to view executions
• Florida says teens' parents must know of abortions
• Pentium III squabble continues
• Girl's out-of-state abortion OK leaves critics fuming at state
• Privacy Tips
• Many articles on privacy and the internet

Click here for the position paper outline