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The right to be left alone

Abschlussbedingungen

The "right to be left alone"

Modern data protection was founded in 1890 by the US lawyers Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941) and Samuel D. Warren (1852 - 1910). They noticed that intimate details of other people's private lives were increasingly being published in newspapers. They criticised the fact that this violated the boundaries of "decency and behaviour". They named privacy as a natural right of every human being and were the first people to describe the right of every person to control their own data.

Their articel „The Right to Privacy“ was published in the Harvard Law Review

Screenshot of the article "Right to Privacy"

Screenshot article "The Right to Privacy"