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Plotting Privacy As Intimacy, Heidi Reamer Anderson

Heidi R Anderson

In Plotting Privacy as Intimacy, I use a two-dimensional Venn diagram to plot and evaluate a subset of privacy law decisions. In each plotted case, the general question was whether a person’s action should be afforded legal protection as private. How the court answered that question can be explained by examining whether the specific facts of the case fall within or outside two circles of intimacy. One circle represents the intimacy of the space in which the action occurs. This spatial intimacy is based primarily on the proximity of the identified space to a secluded area of the home. Within …