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guaranteed by implication from other rights explicitly enumerated in the U.S. Constitution [the First Amendment has a where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion "Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)"] see also Griswold v. Connecticut in … [the public-private ] 2 : an extension of protection, reach, application, or consideration ;esp : a body of rights held to be guaranteed by implication from other rights explicitly enumerated in the U.S. Constitution [the First Amendment

fair credit reporting act

credit reporting act federal act to ensure that credit bureaus are fair and accurate protecting the individual's privacy rights enacted in 1971 and revised in October 1997. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

intrude

[a search that s on a person's privacy] vt : to encroach on or upon without permission or right in·trud·er n

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Seizure

2 SCR 151. The act or an instance of taking possession of a person or property by legal right or process, esp., in constitutional law, a confiscation or arrest that may interfere with a person's reasonable expectation … process, esp., in constitutional law, a confiscation or arrest that may interfere with a person's reasonable expectation of privacy, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1363. Merely holding books found lying in the premises for perusing them

privity

Only these parties had privity. Under modern laws and doctrines of strict liability and implied warranty, however, the right to sue has been extended to those, such as third-party beneficiaries and members of a purchaser's household, whose use … privity pl: -ties [Old French privité privacy, secret, from Medieval Latin privitat- privitas, from Latin privus private] 1 : the direct connection or relationship between

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2 : an act of boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas in exercise of the right to do so under international law (as in time of war) 3 : an examination of a public record … (as of an area or person) by a government agent that intrudes on an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy and is conducted usually for the purpose of finding evidence of unlawful activity or guilt or to locate

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