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It’s not mine.

Here’s another take on privacy. By Harry Browne, libertarian.

http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/PrivacyRight.htm

“The ninth and tenth amendments were included to make absolutely sure there was no misunderstanding about the limited powers the Constitution grants to the federal government.

Amendment IX:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Now, where’s the right to privacy?

It is clearly in those two amendments.

The government has no power to tell people what to do except in areas specifically authorized in the Constitution.

That means it has no right to tell people whether or not they can engage in homosexual acts; no right to invade our privacy; no right to manage our health-care system; no right to tell us what a marriage is; no right to run our lives; no right to do anything that wasn’t specifically authorized in the Constitution.”

and a discussion here

http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2008/01/21/the-constitution-and-the-right-to-privacy/

and a site dedicated to privacy issues among other things:

http://www.ladylibrty.com/privacy.html

See sidebar discussion labeled:
The Right to Privacy

Also, same site:
“W.H. collects Web users’ data without notice 09-16-09
The hypcricy [sic] doesn’t get a lot more blatant than this, does it?
Meanwhile, the standard caveats apply not just to the White House but to myriad other online entities: If you don’t want everybody to know it, don’t post it.”