Rights & liberties
constitutional privacy
The set of protections courts have drawn from several amendments covering personal decisions and freedom from surveillance. Not a single named right.
In full
The word privacy does not appear in the Constitution. Protection comes from the Fourth Amendment against searches, the First against compelled disclosure of association, and substantive due process for certain personal decisions. Separately, statutes such as the Privacy Act and sectoral health and financial laws govern what government and companies may do with data.
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