Former professional baseball player Doug Glanville makes a very important point about privacy.
It is coming to light that many players were evidently juiced, harming themselves and doing violence to the American pastime in their chemical quest for an edge.
The manner in which some in baseball are addressing this issue is equally distressing, however, as they are violating individuals' privacy rights while grabbing headlines.
Perjuring oneself while being asked questions under oath is unconscionable. But not giving a person a chance to address those questions for themselves, reneging on the terms of one's original agreement in the process, is likewise despicable.
A few links on privacy follow:
1) Warren and Brandeis' famous essay: "The Right to Privacy," Harvard Law Review, Vol. IV, No. 5, Dec. 15, 1890.
2) Privacy: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Surveillance Society
1) "Microchip Implants Raise Privacy Concern," Associated Press, 7/21/07.
2) Justice Brandeis' dissent in Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) [and see here]:
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...
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding...
"Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means-to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal-would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face."
3) Minnesota Public Radio piece.
2) Justice Brandeis' dissent in Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) [and see here]:
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...
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding...
"Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen. In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means-to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal-would bring terrible retribution. Against that pernicious doctrine this court should resolutely set its face."
3) Minnesota Public Radio piece.
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