The corresponding duty is, not to inflict an injury, and not, within such proximity as might render it successful, to attempt the infliction of an injury. Personal immunity. The right to one’s person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone. The phrase however is often mistaken to be pointing to the right to the solitude, which I think is not the case. On the other hand, in the legal literature, right to privacy is often referred to as “right to be let alone.” This comes from the Warren and Brandeis’s famous paper “Right to Privacy” that quotes Justice Cooley’s “Law of Torts”. Thus, the notion of the “right of privacy” as “self-control right” is not too far away from its original meaning. In short, it points to something that you have sovereign over. stem of privare “to separate, deprive,” from privus”one’s own, individual. “ Private” is a word that appeared in the late 14th century that came from Latin “privatus”, “set apart, belonging to oneself” (not to the state), used in contrast to publicus, communis originally pp. Etymology of “privacy”Īccording to Online Etymology Dictionary, privacy is a word first appeared in the 15th century and is composed of private + -cy, which is an abstract noun suffix of quality or rank. In this article, I will try to clarify it from two approaches: etymology and legal literature. Privacy, whether in the east or west, is a word talked in a vague sense leading to much confusion.
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