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- Title
PRESIDENTIAL PRIVACY VIOLATIONS.
- Authors
Keats Citron, Danielle
- Abstract
Privacy violations are destructive, no matter the perpetrator, but governmental privacy violations cast a particularly long and destructive shadow. A recent illustration began in 2017, when the Department of Justice revealed the texts and extramarital affair of public servants to the press. The President amplified that information in a years-long smear campaign. To the public servants, the wreckage included job losses, stained reputations, physical danger, and emotional suffering. To the public, the damage included a further loss of trust in the government's ability to handle personal data with care. In the wake of privacy violations at the hands of powerful government actors, we must recognize the wrongs done to individuals and the public. Existing law provides some relief, but the government's own actions must play a part. At every branch and level, local, state, and federal, the government must work to restore public confidence in its data-handling practices. A key step would be to recognize intimate privacy as a foundational right.
- Subjects
PRIVACY Act of 1974 (U.S.); PUBLIC support; PRIVACY; UNITED States. Dept. of Justice; ACTIVISTS
- Publication
University of Illinois Law Review, 2022, Vol 2022, Issue 5, p1913
- ISSN
0276-9948
- Publication type
Article